My friend says I have to use Vedalken Certarch ability before he declares his attacking creature.Is that correct?
Asked by Fanfax 14 years ago
My friend says I have to use Vedalken Certarch ability before he declares his attacking creature.Is that correct?
rushtowait says... #2
Basically, you can use it anytime BEFORE the declare attackers step (your opponents usually will asks if you want to do anything prior to him declaring his attacking creatures). But you best bet is still immediately use it when the combat phase starts to make things clearer for everyone.
May 2, 2011 8:48 a.m.
There is no "after he announces his attack, Before he taps his creatures". Declaring your attacking creatures and tapping them all happens in one step, with no chance for anyone to cast spells or activate abilities. On the rest of it you're right though, if you're trying to use Certarch to stop a certain creature from attacking, you have to do it before your opponent declares attackers. For other purposes though, you can activate Certarch's ability pretty much whenever you want.
May 2, 2011 8:52 a.m.
Sorry about that little error... I didn't even notice that I had put that down until after I did... Sorry for the mix up... Thanks for the correction... :)
May 2, 2011 5:23 p.m.
SwiftDeath says... #6
you can use Vedalken Certarch to tap his creatures at the end of his first main phase after his main phase before he declares attackers as soon as he declares who he's attacking with the declare attackers step occurs and during this time this means that you passed priority when you could have responded and after he has declared attackers there is another step that allows you to respond before the declare blockers step any creatures already attacking have already been tapped and can no longer be tapped using vedalken certarch so when he declares attackers and doesn't ask you if you want to respond to his end of his first main phase you are allowed to cut in and say "in response to you ending your first main phase tap target artifact, creature, or land using vedalken certarch's effect"
May 3, 2011 11:11 p.m.
btw, you cant use it to tap a land in response to them tapping it because mana source abilities are the fastest resolving ability in the game and can't be countered, or "responded to."
arobidoux says... #1
Your friend is kinda correct...
Vedalken Certarch allows you to tap a target creature, artifact or land... If you are going to be tapping one of his creatures so it can't attack, you can either do that before he announces his attack, or after he announces his attack, BEFORE he taps his attackers...
Hope that helps...
May 2, 2011 8:18 a.m.