Question on the Order of Kiora's emblem, Undergrowth Champion, and Swell of Growth
Asked by Runlue 9 years ago
So the Q&A page is STILL down, but I would really like this question answered, because the possibilities if it were would be insane.
So you have activated Kiora, Master of the Depths' emblem. You cast Undergrowth Champion, and before the Champion resolves, you cast Swell of Growth, targeting the Champion. You can now put a land from your hand into play. So here's my question... does the land come into play with the resolution of Swell of Growth, thus triggering the landfall on the Champion (if it can even do that in this situation) and then could the Champion fight a creature afterwards?
mathimus55 says... #2
You would want to wait until Undergrowth Champion resolves so that you can't target him at all first. You can't target a creature while it's still on the stack.
What you would want to do is have the champion resolve, ETB and trigger th emblem. With the emblem trigger on the stack you would cast Swell of Growth and put your land in while targeting champion for the pump. Then while the emblem trigger is still on the stack and the Swell is resolving you out the land into play which triggers the Champion's landfall ability.
Once the landfall trigger resolves and the champion gets the pump and the counter THEN the emblem trigger would resolve and you would be able to choose if you want the Champion to fight another creature as a 2/2 with a +1/+1 counter, and +2/+2 until EOT, so a 5/5. Remember the Kiora emblem is a "may" ability so you don't have to make them fight.
ojmandias says... Accepted answer #1
You can't target the champion with swell before champion resolves but you can let the champion resolve and cast swell with kiora's emblem trigger on stack. Then the swell would resolve first and the champion landfall trigger and then the last thing to resolve would be the kiora emblem
December 7, 2015 2:08 p.m.