How would an essence flux afect combat and the stack
Asked by Spawnicias99 9 years ago
If I play essence flux does a spell targeting the creature fizzle or stack depending on the card and can I use it and still attack with the creature
Spawnicias99 says... #2
What about languish where it targets the whole board?
April 28, 2016 12:53 a.m.
[[Languish]]
Gives Languish
Languish doesn't target. Therefore, you cannot flick a creature to save it.
April 28, 2016 1 a.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #4
The important thing to note with Languish is that even if you Essence Flux your Arbor Elf. It will immediately return back to the battlefield before Languish has even begun to resolve so you will have essentially done nothing unless the +1/+1 counter given is enough to save your creature (which would only work if said creature is a spirit).
April 28, 2016 1:07 a.m.
Question on this, if I block with a creature that would be wiped by the combat damage but I cast Essence Flux before damage is resolved does the attacker still count as blocked but the creature survives?
My thinking is that it does as the way I understand it if you block a creature but then the blocker is removed by a burn spell for example its still blocked. In addition the above seems to indicate it counts as a new entity on the battlefield so thertefore wouldn't take the combat damage.
July 6, 2016 9:24 a.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #7
When an attacking creature has a defending creature declared as a blocker against it, it is declared blocked unless a spell or ability specifically says otherwise.
This is true even if the blocking creature is removed from combat, dies, or in some other way is not blocking the attacker anymore.
Essence Flux exiles your blocker and returns it to play removed from combat. Because it's a new entity, it's no longer blocking that attacker, and it's not taking nor dealing any combat damage.
Unless the attacking creature had trample, that creature will still be declared blocked and deal no combat damage to anything. (Unless there's a second creature blocking it).
DJSeras says... #1
I am going to try to reconstruct a scenario similar to what you described.
You have a creature such as Arbor Elf on the battlefield and you choose to attack with arbor elf. Your opponent chooses to cast Doom Blade targeting your Arbor Elf, in response you cast Essence Flux targeting your Arbor Elf.
The stack now looks like this:
Top:Essence Flux
Bottom:Doom Blade
The stack always resolves in reverse order of how it was set up. So Essence Flux would resolve first exiling your Arbor Elf and then return it to the battlefield. Next Doom Blade would attempt to resolve but since its original target left the battlefield it no longer has a legal target and becomes countered due to game rules. Arbor elf is now considered by the game to be a "New object" with no memory of what it was affecting it or what it was doing before re-entering the battlefield so it is not attacking as it was before but is not killed by Doom Blade.
April 28, 2016 12:42 a.m.