When exactly during your opponent's turn do you gain priority?
Asked by sanixon94 14 years ago
When exactly during your opponent's turn do you gain priority?
During each players turns they are the active players, this means they are the ones who always get priority. During your opponents turns you get priority when the active player passes, in other words plays a spell/ability or simply doesn't do anything and gives you the opportunity to do your stuff during that stage or step.
The following rule is pretty clear
116.3d If a player has priority and chooses not to take any actions, that player passes. If any mana is in that players mana pool, he or she announces what mana is there. Then the next player in turn order receives priority
March 24, 2011 1:59 a.m.
Also remember, no one has priority during the untap and clean up:
116.3a The active player receives priority at the beginning of most steps and phases, after any turnbased actions (such as drawing a card during the draw step; see rule 703) have been dealt with and abilities that trigger at the beginning of that phase or step have been put on the stack. No player receives priority during the untap step. Players usually dont get priority during the cleanup step (see rule 514.3).
And after resolving of a spell/ability no matter whom the owner is, the active always calls the shots afterwards:
116.3b The active player receives priority after a spell or ability (other than a mana ability) resolves.
March 24, 2011 2:06 a.m.
Technically, Leafs_suck is incorrect.
116.3c If a player has priority when he or she casts a spell, activates an ability, or takes a special action, that player receives priority afterward.
Even after your opponent casts a spell or activates an ability, they retain priority afterward. This means they may cast multiple spells in a row before you can do anything.
Answer: You receive priority during your opponent's turn during each step they have priority, but only after they pass priority.
March 24, 2011 8:52 a.m.
WorkAround says... #6
Priority goes to person that played last card in a chain of cards (example Cancel s).
Priority to play a card to a card being played goes to the player that did not play that card.
March 24, 2011 9:03 a.m.
@WorkAround, again, the same player keeps priority after playing a card until they pass priority.
March 24, 2011 9:13 a.m.
the simplest case :
Each player receives priority when the other player passes, or if he is the AP (active player) when a subphase begins, after the triggered effects and abilities are put on stack (if any).
A player passes after he puts on stack any number of spells and abilities he may put (respecting the timing restrictions), or when he wants to go to the next subphase.
If both players pass is succession, the stack start resolving, and after each spell/ability resolved, priority goes again to AP. If the stack is empty at that moment, the next subphase begins immediately.
As a gaming hint : If a player asks you, if he can do anything during, let's say, your main phase, and you accept, it's basically a pass from you. He can pass, and the game will move to combat step. You cannot rewind anything, and if you did not play that hasted attacker or land, you will get the chance at the next main phase.
March 24, 2011 11:45 a.m.
Okay, my explination isn't "priority" but its whenever he can do something, which is what I was going for.
March 24, 2011 12:10 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #11
"Priority" and "when you can do something" are the same thing. The other explanations given by Tezz, mafteechr, and Scorpse are correct.
March 24, 2011 12:16 p.m.
phyrexianpotater says... #12
an ancient martial artform in which the user can kill a man with a broken toothpick, 3 feathers, and a slice of cheese.
:D
March 24, 2011 12:41 p.m.
phyrexianpotater says... #13
WTF. i thought i clicked on the ninjitsu question, got this, and didnt attention after that. if i could remove it i would. fail fail fail.. sorry guys.
March 24, 2011 12:44 p.m.
Congrats, this is just me going off the top of my head and not looking athe the rules text. In essence I'm 90% correct, which is an A in school, i'll take it.
March 24, 2011 5:44 p.m.
@Leafs_suck
this is not a contest. We are not racing to get the higher grade. we want th ecorrect answer and not one that is almost correct, because the question asker might get confused.
this is a exceptional resource, and a friendly community. No one is flaming, graduating...and so on.
Just helping each other learn the rules. Nobody has all the answers, even the judges can get some wrong.
March 24, 2011 7:28 p.m.
I never said it was a contest? I accept my answer wasn't 100% correct, I was just saying it wasn't totaly wrong either.
Internet isn't srs business, I don't get mad lol.
I just answered what I thought was correct. It wasn't, I'll live :P.
Deco_y says... #1
Basically during each stage of your opponent's turn, he has first crack at doing something. The minute he decides to do something, like if he plays a land, a spell or activate an ability and starts to do it, you may counter what he does/activate an ability/cast an instant.
Basically everytime your opponent makes a move, you recieve priority. When you do something/don't do something, priority passes back to opponent.
I think this is right and hope it helps!
March 24, 2011 1:54 a.m.