Omnath and Shaman of Forgotten Ways

Asked by BlueScope 8 years ago

The situation is that I control an Omnath, Locus of Mana and a Shaman of Forgotten Ways. I have 11 green mana in my mana pool, so Omnath is a 12/12, and I have enough mana to activate Shaman's last ability, however that will lower my total creature's power to less than 8.

My question is whether I can successfully activate the ability, and while I'm pretty sure that I can, there are a few rules that have me confused:

602.1b. Some text after the colon of an activated ability states instructions that must be followed while activating that ability. Such text may state which players can activate that ability, may restrict when a player can activate the ability, (...)

602.2. To activate an ability is to put it onto the stack and pay its costs, (...)

...as well as the ability only "becomes activated" after going through all the steps, so I'm not sure whether not meeting the requirement in the middle of activating the ability will make it an illegal action, though I might just over-complicate things here...

Thanks in advance!

filledelanuit says... Accepted answer #1

The game checks to see if you can put an ability of the stack (activate it) before you pay the costs for the spell. So when the game checks if you could activate the ability you will have ferocious and you'll be able to activate the ability.

August 3, 2015 3:43 p.m.

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