Gaea's Liege
Asked by Ken 11 years ago
If Gaea's Liege 's tap ability is used on a land, does the land lose all other tap abilities, or does it simply add the type forest and tap for G to the land?
Assuming the land loses all other tap abilities, if an opponent drops a land and I use the tap ability to change it, they can tap the land in response and still get off 1 of the original effect, right?
If so, if I wait for them to tap it, then change it to a forest in response, the land's original ability would still be on the stack, and the land would still get off 1 of the original effect still, right?
Is there a way for me to change it without the opponent getting to use the original effect once?
Epochalyptik says... #2
Gaea's Liege 's ability does overwrite the other land types of the targeted land. It becomes a Forest (card types and supertypes remain unaffected) with the ability "T: Add G to your mana pool."
September 14, 2013 8:44 p.m.
Thank you. That answers the original questions, but I am still unsure of what happens in the presented scenarios.
September 14, 2013 8:49 p.m.
Short answer: Yes, it does, and no, you cannot.
Long answer: Yes, because whenever something becomes something else, it loses all previous abilities. If it said it becomes a forest in addition to its other types, then they could use its previous abilities. No, because 1) Mana abilities don't use the stack, so you would be unable to respond to it any way and 2) even if you could respond to it, the ability is already on the stack and changing the permanent won't change the ability, so they will still get one of the original effect. If you activated first, they could still activate in response.
September 14, 2013 8:49 p.m.
And I just realized that land's can have non-mana abilities, so disregard that part if its not a mana ability.
Ken says... #1
Wow, sorry for double post. My mistake.
September 14, 2013 8:32 p.m.