Triggered?
Asked by Colten_Lee 10 years ago
Is cumulative upkeep a triggered ability? More specifically, with Corrosion can I put the rust counters on/destroy proper artifacts before having to pay the cumulative upkeep?
Colten_Lee says... #2
Thank you man. Don't know how I missed that. So that would mean I could avoid cumulative upkeep costs with Sundial of the Infinite, correct?
April 29, 2015 8:34 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Yes, but at the cost of skipping almost all of your turn. You also won't be able to put an age counter on the permanent and then end the turn before you are asked to pay the cumulative cost; the ability is only one ability that has two parts.
April 29, 2015 8:37 p.m.
Colten_Lee says... #4
But I don't need the age counters for the card to function, unless I'm misunderstanding? But I'm making a casual lockout deck based on Corrosion and Mycosynth Lattice just to irritate my friends.
April 29, 2015 8:41 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #5
In this case, it doesn't matter. Corrosion's cumulative upkeep ability is completely unrelated to its second triggered ability. But it might matter for something like Braid of Fire or Phyrexian Etchings.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
702.23a Cumulative upkeep is a triggered ability that imposes an increasing cost on a permanent. "Cumulative upkeep [cost]" means "At the beginning of your upkeep, if this permanent is on the battlefield, put an age counter on this permanent. Then you may pay [cost] for each age counter on it. If you don't, sacrifice it." If [cost] has choices associated with it, each choice is made separately for each age counter, then either the entire set of costs is paid, or none of them is paid. Partial payments aren't allowed.
Because Corrosion has two triggered abilities that trigger simultaneously, you choose the order in which the abilities are placed onto the stack.
April 29, 2015 8:31 p.m.