Viper's Kiss ability
Asked by halfgnome 11 years ago
I am not sure how to word this properly, but here goes. I was wondering if it matters which order the effects of Viper's Kiss are applied, if for instance, I wanted to enchant the opponent's Predatory Sliver , which is the only card currently the opponent controls, would Viper's Kiss be able to do "it's (Predatory Sliver) activated abilities can't be activated, THEN give Predatory Sliver -1/-1, thus destorying Predatory Sliver? Or would I have to give Predatory Sliver -1/-1, then make it unable to activate its ability, causing it to just be a 1/1 without an ability?
GreatSword says... #2
Predatory Sliver doesn't have an activated ability, it has a static ability. Viper's Kiss won't prevent it, it'll just give the Sliver -1/-1.
An activated ability is one with a cost, like in Goblin Fireslinger .
January 5, 2014 5:13 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #3
Predatory Sliver doesn't have any activated abilities. It has a static ability.
An activated ability is one of the form "[cost]: [effect]."
Furthermore, a cards or effect always performs actions in the order in which they're written. The creature will get -1/-1, and its activated abilities won't be able to be activated. It doesn't actually matter that the order is what it is. Let's pretend Viper's Kiss gave the enchanted creature -1/-1 and caused it to lose all abilities. Predatory Sliver would die because regardless of the order of operations, it would be a 0/0 after all effects.
Matsi883 says... #1
First off, Predatory Sliver 's ability isn't an activated ability; it's a static ability. Activated abilities are written "cost:effect."
So, all that Viper's Kiss does to Predatory Sliver is make it a 0/0 with +1/+1 to each sliver (including himself).
January 5, 2014 5:13 p.m.