Surgical Extraction+Primal Surge
Asked by Wabbbit 12 years ago
If I play Primal Surge , what is the step order for playing Surgical Extraction and exiling the other copies of Primal Surge that are in my deck so that Primal Surge will work. Is it possible to do that before primal surge works?
ken_dawg13 says... #2
As stated above you need to have a Primal Surge in your graveyard, which there are a number of ways of getting it there but most require an instant or sorcery. I take it your idea is to only run permanents and Primal Surge and Surgical Extraction. What are you looking to play, standard, modern, extended, rec? You may run into troubles rampping up to 10 mana, unless your running creature ramp which is very susceptible to whipflares.
Never the less, you can go either way either casting Surgical Extraction 1st or Primal Surge since you have the option to leave the one in your hand. I would suggest Primal Surge then Surgical Extraction incase your playing control you dont want to extract all those cards and have them mana leak your Primal Surge.
July 2, 2012 11:20 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #3
Moving a spell from the stack to the graveyard is the very last step of resolving its effect. You can't Extract Primal Surge in response to casting it unless there's another copy already in your graveyard for some reason.
July 2, 2012 5:34 p.m.
instants and sorceries don't go into the graveyard until they resolve, so you can't Surgical Extraction the Primal Surge you just cast until the spell fully resolves. In tournament play at some higher levels judges can give warnings if they see you throwing spells into the graveyard before they resolve.
drhumbra says... #1
In order to exile Primal Surge and the remaining copies with Surgical Extraction you will need to have a copy of Primal Surge in your graveyard. Otherwise, the extraction has no target because the inital primal surge is still resolving.
July 2, 2012 11 a.m.