Retraction Helix + Triton Tactics/Hidden Strings
Asked by PyroSwardsman 11 years ago
I am fairly new to magic and don't really have the mechanics all down so this might be a stupid question to some of you.Lets say I have out Siren of the Silent Song and have previously encoded it with Hidden Strings and it has already been target by Retraction Helix This turn. Am I going to be able to declare it as an attacker, attack with it and then add its Retraction Helix tap ability to the stack between the activations of Hidden Strings allowing me to cause multiple discards and cards bounced back to the hand for my opponent?
Rhadamanthus says... #2
That mostly works, but you can't choose the same thing to tap/untap for both parts of Hidden Strings (it specifically says "another target permanent").
February 17, 2014 6:32 p.m.
megawurmple says... #3
If the question you're asking is whether or not you can tap the Siren in between the two parts of Hidden Strings resolving, then the answer is no. You cannot do anything during the resolution of a spell or ability. However, if you're asking whether or not you can bounce multiple creatures in one turn with Retraction Helix , then yes, you can. You can tap the Siren and bounce something, then cipher Hidden Strings on it and untap it, then attack, untap it again with Strings, then tap it again to bounce another guy. Inspired will trigger every time it untaps (twice, in this instance).
February 17, 2014 6:52 p.m.
PyroSwardsman says... #4
Thanks everyone, your combined information cleared up a lot of things for me.
OrzhovExtort says... Accepted answer #1
well 1st when you attack it becomes tapped 2nd Hidden Strings kicks in and its ability has to trigger and untap/tap upto 2 permanants so this ability resolves and you untap Siren of the Silent Song and lets say a land then you can activate the ability retraction helix has given your siren. so it will only untap once to trigger it imprinted ability
February 17, 2014 6:14 p.m.