Moraug + World At War

Asked by Pedrodamus 1 month ago

Just came across the following interaction and I THINK I understand how it will resolve itself out, but just wanted confirmation:

I'm in my 2nd main and I just cheated Moraug, Fury of Akoum off the top with The Infamous Cruelclaw. I play a fetch which creates an extra combat phase. Now, I also have a Bolas's Citadel on board and I have a World At War on top and I play that. Do I still get my extra main phase after the extra combat phase created by World At War? I know every extra combat created goes ahead of a previous one in the order and the way I'm interpreting World At War is that the extra main phase is baked into its extra combat so that entire effect would resolve prior to Moraug's extra combat which would now happen after the main phase granted by World At War?

Thanks in advance, and feel free to tell me if i'm completely wrong lol.

Pedrodamus says... #1

And I know that in a perfect world if it's just World at War on top I play that before my land, but let's say i had to play that land off the top (which is how i got here while goldfishing) to reveal the World At War.

April 16, 2025 11:47 a.m.

Polaris says... Accepted answer #2

I think you have this correct.

When effects add extra phases to your turn, they're inserted where they say, in the order they occur. In this case, you are in your postcombat main phase, so your "main" part of the turn looks like this so far:

  • Main
  • Combat
  • Main (you are here)
  • End

After resolving Moraug, Fury of Akoum's trigger, you insert a combat phase after this phase and now have this:

  • Main
  • Combat
  • Main (you are here)
  • ->Combat (untap all creatures you control)
  • End

After resolving World at War, which is valid as it is your first postcombat main phase right now, you insert a combat phase and a main phase after this phase and have this:

  • Main
  • Combat
  • Main (you are here)
  • ->Combat (untap all creatures that attacked this turn)
  • ->Main
  • Combat (untap all creatures you control)
  • End

You could even take this a step further and crack that fetch land for another Moraug trigger and get a final turn looking like this:

  • Main
  • Combat
  • Main (you are here)
  • ->Combat (untap all creatures you control)
  • Combat (untap all creatures that attacked this turn)
  • Main
  • Combat (untap all creatures you control)
  • End
April 16, 2025 9:52 p.m.

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