Exquisite blood and bond of Agony interaction?
Asked by Asyriel 6 years ago
So with Bond of Agony and Exquisite Blood , I'm wondering how the stack would work. Obviously exquisite blood would be on the field first. Would you be able to drain your life to 0 and survive once exquisite blood takes effect, or would the game end once you reach 0 with bond of Agony? Does the resolution of bond kill you first or does exquisite blood resolve as a fast effect?
Rhadamanthus says... #3
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Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #1
Fast effects are no longer a thing. The game now uses the stack. All spells, activated abilities, and triggered abilities go on the stack and resolve one at a time in first in, last out order.
Players receive priority in turn order to put any spells or activated abilities on the stack by paying their cost. Each time before a player receives priority state-based-actions (SBAs) are checked and performed and triggers that have occured since the last time a player received priority are put on the stack.
After all players have taken no action during their priority, the topmost object of the stack resolves or the step/phase advances if there are no objects on the stack. Priority goes around the table again before the next object resolves or step/phase advances.
If you are at 15 life and you pay 16 mana and 15 life into Bond of Agony you will be at 0 life when SBAs are checked before you receive priority and you will lose to CR704.5a (If a player has 0 or less life, that player loses the game.) If instead you pay 15 mana and 14 life, assuming no responses that kill you, your opponents will lose life when Bond of Agony resolves. At this point Exquisite Blood will trigger, and once the trigger resolves you will gain life.
September 15, 2019 8:02 p.m.