Stacking/Resolving triggers entering combat? Brudiclad + Rionya + Massacre Wurm entering

Asked by Pedrodamus 1 year ago

Scenario is this: Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer and Rionya, Fire Dancer are on the battefiled with Massacre Wurm in the bin. I enter combat and respond by casting Corpse Dance targeting Masscare Wurm. When Massacre Wurm enters and the -2/-2 etb goes on the stack am I able to respond to that by allowing the combat triggers to resolve prior to the -2/-2 etb so that the Rionya triggers and makes 2 copies of Massacre Wurm, putting 2x -2/-2 etbs on the stack, and then resolve Brudiclad's trigger to create a 2/1 Myr and have all my tokens become copies of Massacre Wurm and finally allow all the -2/-2 triggers resolve so that when something on my opponents board dies 4x Massacre Wurms see it for a total of 8 lost of life per creature? It's a wonky scenario and I'm not certain if I can control my creature's etb/combat triggers in this fashion. My immediate answer was "no", but just wanted to confirm.

Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #1

Once a spell or ability is on the stack you can't move it up or down and new objects always go on the top of the stack and will resolve before anything that was already on the stack. There is also the fact that Rionya, Fire Dancer's ability targets and so Massacre Wurm will need to be on the battlefield before you move to combat in order to make copies of it.

The best interaction you are going to get with this is going to be:

Return Massacre Wurm on your first main phase.

Massacre Wurm's ETB will resolve and anything that dies will be seen by 1 Massacre Wurm.

Move to combat and put both beginning of combat triggers on the stack. Bruniclad first and Rionya on top of it targeting Massacre Wurm.

Rionya's ability resolves making 2 Massacre Wurms. The Massacre Wurm ETBs go on the stack.

First token Massacre Wurm ETB resolves and anything that dies will be seen by 3 Massacre Wurm.

Second token Massacre Wurm ETB resolves and anything that dies will be seen by 3 Massacre Wurm.

Bruniclad trigger resolves creating the 2/1 and allowing you to make it into a Massacre Wurm token.

Anything that dies in combat will have 4 Massacre Wurm see it.

August 7, 2022 3:25 p.m.