Emerge-flash question
Asked by KnightOfTheRosewater 8 years ago
Assuming I have all the required mana and creatures to sac to the elder deep fiend to cast him.
Say it's my opponent's turn, they have the required mana to cast languish and they cast languish, can I in response cast elder deep fiend to tap the 4 lands that enable the casting of languish and thereby stopping languish for that turn assuming they dont have another 4 lands?
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
You can use double square brackets to link cards: Elder Deep-Fiend, Languish. This is the best way to make sure everyone reading your question knows what's going on.
No, for two reasons:
- Once a player announces the casting of a spell or the activation of an ability, no one gets priority to make responses until right after the costs are paid. There's no way to go back in time and somehow stop your opponent from paying the mana for Languish after it's already happened.
- Even if your opponent taps their lands for mana before announcing the spell, mana abilities (abilities that produce mana) don't use the stack and can't be responded to. By the time you can respond with Elder Deep-Fiend, the lands are already tapped and the mana has already been made.
If you want this to work, you're going to have to guess at what your opponent might do before you know for sure. You'll have to pre-emptively cast Elder Deep-Fiend during their upkeep step, when players aren't normally allowed to cast sorcery spells like Languish.
Dracoson says... #1
Elder Deep-Fiend
Languish
No. You can only cast spells or activate abilities when you have priority. Assuming no "At the beginning of the Main Phase" triggers, the first time during your opponent's main phase that you will have priority is after they have passed it to you (either to move to the next phase, or after they have added a spell or ability to the stack and are waiting for it to resolve, but by that point all costs have been paid).
July 21, 2016 8:16 p.m.