Order of resolving multi target spell
Asked by GearsGames 4 years ago
Question I have involves Conflagrate and Multi-Targets. Let's say Cordial Vampire and Gifted Aetherborn are targeted.
Conflagrate X cost = 4, When it is divided to deal 1 damage to Cordial Vampire and 3 damage to Gifted Aetherborn do the +1/+1 counters from Cordial Vampire go onto either creature saving one of them?
If so does the person casting the spell or the person with the targeted creatures choose which one stays on the board with the counters?
GearsGames says... #3
Kind of a follow up question, if there were other Vampire's on the board the counters from both creatures would still be passed along though, correct?
Or does the opponent get to choose to have the Cordial die first so that Aetherborn wouldn't trigger with it?
June 29, 2019 8 p.m.
dragonstryke58 says... #4
If there were other vampires on board, they would each get 2 +1/+1 counters.
Like I mentioned before, SBA's are performed all at once, so both Cordial Vampire and Gifted Aetherborn will die at the same time. Cordial Vampire will trigger twice putting two instances of its ability on the stack. Objects on the stack exist independently of their sources, so if both instances resolve, your vampires will get 2 +1/+1 counters.
June 29, 2019 8:10 p.m.
GearsGames says... #5
Thanks again, getting into modern requiring a lot more card interaction research that casual play.
dragonstryke58 says... Accepted answer #1
No. Neither Cordial Vampire nor Gifted Aetherborn will be saved in this situation.
When resolving spells and abilities, you resolve them fully before anything else can be put to the stack. In this case, Conflagrate will deal its damage to both Cordial Vampire and Gifted Aetherborn at the same time.
For Reference: 608.2j If an instant spell, sorcery spell, or ability that can legally resolve leaves the stack once it starts to resolve, it will continue to resolve fully.
Then, before anything else can happen, State-based actions will be checked and all SBA's happen simultaneously. Due to this, SBA's will move both Cordial Vampire and Gifted Aetherborn to the graveyard as they will both die to lethal damage.
For Reference: 704.3. Whenever a player would get priority (see rule 116, “Timing and Priority”), the game checks for any of the listed conditions for state-based actions, then performs all applicable state-based actions simultaneously as a single event. If any state-based actions are performed as a result of a check, the check is repeated; otherwise all triggered abilities that are waiting to be put on the stack are put on the stack, then the check is repeated. Once no more state-based actions have been performed as the result of a check and no triggered abilities are waiting to be put on the stack, the appropriate player gets priority. This process also occurs during the cleanup step (see rule 514), except that if no state-based actions are performed as the result of the step’s first check and no triggered abilities are waiting to be put on the stack, then no player gets priority and the step ends.
June 29, 2019 7:01 p.m.