Timeing question.
Asked by proterran98 6 years ago
It's my opponents turn. I have Mistmeadow Witch and Peregrine Drake. If i use mistmeadow witch ability during their turn, at end of turn I get to untap 5 lands. My question is, can I use those 5 lands between the end of my opponents turn and before my untap step? (essentially getting to use those 5 lands before I untap all my lands).
proterran98 says... #2
So at the clean up step can I activate mistmeadow witch ability again targeting the drake (using the lands untaped from the drake)? if done so, the drake would come back into play at the end of my turn?
July 1, 2018 9:36 p.m.
proterran98 says... #3
Or can I do the above just replace "clean up" step with the "end step"?
July 1, 2018 9:39 p.m.
FancyTuesday says... #4
Yes to end step, "probably not" for the cleanup step.
The end step always has a round of priority, and many delayed triggered abilities go off "at the beginning of [the/your] next end step" which give further opportunities to respond and act. So yes, unless there's a special condition preventing you from acting like City of Solitude you will always have an opportunity to act during your opponent's end step.
The cleanup step is different. Normally, no player receives priority during the cleanup step, and few effects trigger to create the opportunity to take priority. This is the step where "until end of turn" effects wear off; if as a result of that happening a SBA must be taken, or if there's a trigger waiting to go on the stack, then players get priority to respond. After which there will be another cleanup step.
And yes, if you blink your Peregrine Drake out with Mistmeadow Witch during your opponent's end step it will return to the battlefield at the beginning of your end step.
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #1
Every time a spell or ability resolves the active player gets priority and all players must pass priority for the game to proceed. When Peregrine Drake's triggered ability resolves your opponent will have an opportunity to respond, and so will you once they've passed priority.
Between their end step and your untap step (assuming it's a 1v1 game) there is only their cleanup step. It is unusual for players to have priority during the cleanup step and impossible to have priority during the untap step, so you must act during their end step if you want to take advantage of the untapped lands. Also, you must use Mistmeadow Witch before they move to their end step, otherwise the delayed "beginning of the next end step" trigger will have to wait until your end step.
July 1, 2018 9:07 p.m. Edited.