If someone plays an X cost card and I destroy 1 mana does the spell fizzle?
Asked by EmperorRancor 11 years ago
If someone plays an X cost card and I destroy 1 mana does the spell fizzle?
Ex: My opponent plays Syncopate as an instant I play Savage Summoning and play a Acidic Slime to destroy 1 land. Does that make the whole spell fizzle because he cast it at lets say 6 mana but now only has 5?
once your opponent casts Syncopate
for 6, than it's already on the stack, and you can't make it fizzle like that.
August 30, 2013 12:14 p.m.
you'll still have to pay 6 mana to prevent your spell from being countered.
August 30, 2013 12:15 p.m.
GreatSword says... #4
Spells are only countered if they no longer have a legal target (I sacrifice my Grizzly Bears that you targeted with Searing Spear ) or something explicitly counters them (Cancel ).
They are 'not' countered if the land used to generate the mana to cast the spell is destroyed. This is because the spell is already paid for and on the stack, waiting to resolve.
August 30, 2013 12:15 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #5
When a player starts the spell-casting process (or ability-activating process) by announcing the spell (or ability), the next time anyone has priority to make responses is after he's finished making all the decisions, paying all the costs, and finally putting it onto the stack. No one is allowed to interrupt this process.
August 30, 2013 1:08 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
It should be noted that you can't destroy mana. Lands may produce mana, but lands and mana are not the same things. Additionally, as the others have said, the mana will have already been spent. You can't preempt the casting process by trying to take an action after another player has already announced the casting process for his or her own spell.
August 30, 2013 1:20 p.m.
Schuesseled says... #7
Mana abilities don't use the stack, i.e. there's no way to respond to someone tapping their lands or preventing them from doing it. Unless a spell was to state exactly that.
Sam_I_am says... #1
No, you don't get priority at any point during the spell casting process.
All the costs get paid, all the modes get chosen and all the cards get chosen before you have priority to cast instants or activate abilities.
August 30, 2013 12:11 p.m.