If i cast an Eternal Witness from Collected Company since coco is still on the stack, i should not be able to return to my hand as target of the ETB from Eternal Witness
Asked by monark07 9 years ago
This was a loop that on of my friends tried to pull off
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #2
JWiley129 is correct, but here's the specifics of why:
Collected Company goes to the graveyard as the final step of it resolving, but because it was resolving triggered abilities have to wait for a player to receive priority to go on the stack. Once it has resolved abilities that triggered will go on the stack, and Collected Company will be a legal target in your graveyard for Eternal Witness's trigger.
608.2k As the final part of an instant or sorcery spells resolution, the spell is put into its owners graveyard. As the final part of an abilitys resolution, the ability is removed from the stack and ceases to exist.
603.2 Whenever a game event or game state matches a triggered abilitys trigger event, that ability automatically triggers. The ability doesnt do anything at this point.
603.3 Once an ability has triggered, its controller puts it on the stack as an object thats not a card the next time a player would receive priority. See rule 116, Timing and Priority. The ability becomes the topmost object on the stack. It has the text of the ability that created it, and no other characteristics. It remains on the stack until its countered, it resolves, a rule causes it to be removed from the stack, or an effect moves it elsewhere.
September 30, 2015 5:19 p.m.
Thanks a lot! now this would enable a lot of more triggers withe the combo!
October 1, 2015 8:59 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
Note also that you don't cast Eternal Witness. Cards that you find with Collected Company are put directly onto the battlefield.
JWiley129 says... #1
So as Collected Company resolves, it will go to the graveyard. This will happen before Eternal Witness's Enters the Battlefield ability goes on the stack. So you will be able to put CoCo into your hand if you put an Eternal Witness into play.
September 30, 2015 4:51 p.m.