timing of Gaea's Blessing
Asked by Bobby654 7 years ago
I have this card in my new mill myself commander just in case I need it. Say if I play Deadbridge Chant and for an example Gaea's Blessing is the 5th card I milled. does Gaea's Blessing work as soon as it hits the yard or do I have to let Deadbridge Chant finish what it started
Gidgetimer says... #2
Gaea's Blessing has a triggered ability that has to go on the stack and resolve just like any other trigger. Triggered abilities go on the stack right before a player receives priority. No player receives priority during the resolution of a spell or ability. The ability will trigger and be put on the stack after the Deadbridge Chant's ability is finished resolving and all 10 cards are in your graveyard.
August 10, 2016 6:19 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Nitpick: Triggered abilities go on the stack when a player receives priority; state-based actions happen immediately before that point in order to prepare the game state for the next set of actions.
August 10, 2016 6:27 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #4
116.5. Each time a player would get priority, the game first performs all applicable state-based actions as a single event (see rule 704, State-Based Actions), then repeats this process until no state-based actions are performed. Then triggered abilities are put on the stack (see rule 603, Handling Triggered Abilities). These steps repeat in order until no further state-based actions are performed and no abilities trigger. Then the player who would have received priority does so.
Nope, looks like they get put on the stack immediately before a player receives priority and after SBA are checked. Definitely before the player actually receives priority though. I think they changed the wording on this sometime around a year ago. At least that is when i noticed it first.
August 10, 2016 6:37 p.m.
guess even after 6 years of playing I still find stupid questions to ask huh
August 10, 2016 6:39 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #6
Interesting. It seems like a minor thing to update; makes me wonder whether it used to be different or if I learned incorrectly and never realized.
Either way, thanks for the citation.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Gaea's Blessing's last ability is a triggered ability.
Whenever a triggered ability triggers during the resolution of another object, it waits until the resolution is complete. Only after the current resolution is complete does the new ability's controller put it onto the stack.
If you mill Gaea's Blessing while resolving Deadbridge Chant's first ability, you'll finish milling and then shuffle your graveyard into your library.
August 10, 2016 6:17 p.m.