How does the stack exactly work

Asked by heinrichdk 8 years ago

My friend attacked me with Silhana Ledgewalker i he has 4 elves in total i blocked with my Hypnotic Siren and in declare blocker i play Might of the Masses i have 3 creatures in total (highest power 2) giving my siren +3 +3 he responds with playing Wirewood Pride i respond with Stubborn Denial does its ferocious trigger or not??

BlueScope says... Accepted answer #1

That depends on when exactly you cast all these spells, but if you cast all of the above without ltting anything resolve inbetween, Ferocious will not be in effect (it's not a triggered ability, so it won't trigger).

The stack works "last in, first out", meaning everything gets thrown on top of it, and whenever all players pass priority, the topmost object starts to resolve. In this case, that would be Stubborn Denial, and at the time it resolves, the board state is just as it was before all this spellslinging - your biggest creature is still 2/2. Your opponent gets to choose if they want to pay or have their spell countered. Then, as with every object that finished resolving, players may again cast spells and abilities. From here, depending on whether your opponent paid before, the next spell on the stack will start to resolve, and so on.

However, your Siren doesn't get +3/+3 until Might of the Masses resolves, which is all the way on the bottom of the stack and will therefore resolve last.

September 15, 2015 4:46 a.m.

Boza says... #2

  1. Ferocious is not a trigger. The spell just does something additional if you have a creature with power 4 or more.

  2. The stack resolves one object at a time, starting from the most recently added one (last in, first out). If all players pass priority (do nothing), the topmost (ie the last one added to the stack) object of the stack resolves. That pattern repeats for each object on the stack below it.

  3. In the scenario above, Stubborn denial will resolve first, long before hypnotic siren will be pumped by Might of the Masses, so you will not have ferocious, unless you have another large creature.

September 15, 2015 4:49 a.m.

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