Stack Question
Asked by rjg110 12 years ago
MY Opponent Has A Mirror-Mad Phantasm He Pays 2 And Is About To Shuffle It Into His Deck And As A Response I Cast Gut Shot. What Happens? Does The Mirror-Mad Go To The Graveyard? Can My opponent Cast Mirror-Mads effect Again?
What jewrummer said is right but will only work if Mirror-mad's controller has the mana to use the ability again. If not then your gut shot will kill Mirror-mad and it will be placed in it's owners graveyard.
May 22, 2012 4:28 a.m.
Jarrod_0067 says... Accepted answer #3
The stack resolves like this:
- Ability is put onto stack
- Gut Shot is put onto stack
- Gut Shot resolves, killing Mirror-Mad Phantasm
- Ability cannot be resolved as Mirror-Mad Phantasm has left the field, so it fizzles. Mirror-Mad Phantasm does NOT shuffle in anyway. It does NOT shuffle from the graveyard. Your opponent CANNOT shuffle their library just because they feel like it
If they choose to activate it again:
- Ability is put onto stack
- Gut Shot is put onto stack
- Ability is put onto stack
- Mirror-Mad Phantasm's ability resolves, shuffling Mirror-Mad Phantasm in, then revealing until Mirror-Mad Phantasm is put onto the field
- Gut Shot fizzles and is put into the owner's graveyard as the Mirror-Mad Phantasm is now considered a new object
- Mirror-Mad Phantasm's ability fizzles as the Mirror-Mad Phantasm is now considered a new object
May 22, 2012 7:57 a.m.
Arachnarchist says... #4
The accepted answer is correct, but I feel that I should point out that the ability does not actuall "fizzle." It is not countered (what fizzle implies), it just does nothing since the phantasm's owner cannot shuffle it into his library, and the rest of the ability has the dependent "if that player does, . . ." clause.
Jewrummer says... #1
Your opponent can put the effect on to the stack again and shuffle Mirror-Mad Phantasm
into his library. Then your Gut Shot
would resolve and fizzle because the original target is gone. Then the first activation would resolve and that would fizzle as well because the Mirror-Mad Phantasm
that you have on the field right now is not the one that you had on the field to begin with
May 22, 2012 3:02 a.m.