Yahenni Stack Question
Asked by childse67 8 years ago
If I have a Yahenni on the field and play his expertise for a board wipe, but while the expertise is on the stack, play an exile-return card like Acrobatic Maneuver on the Yahenni. How does the stack work on that one? Does the Yahenni return after his expertise resolves, and reap the benefits? Does it return before, and perish as well? Or does it come in last, and get nothing but a clean board?
Please link all cards relevant to your question: Yahenni, Undying Partisan, Yahenni's Expertise, Acrobatic Maneuver
Acrobatic Maneuver simply blinks the creature, meaning nothing happens inbetween the creature leaving and re-entering the battlefield (except for maybe abilities triggering).
The stack always resolves last-in-first-out, meaning Acrobatic Maneuver will blink Yahenni, then Expertise will give -3/-3 to all creatures (including Yahenni). If any creatures your opponents control die, Yahenni's ability will trigger that many times, but since it left the battlefield itself at this time, the abilities will do nothing when they resolve.
Long story short, you would get -3/-3 for all creatures out of this, and nothing else.
January 15, 2017 3:06 p.m.
ok, thank you. And a Long Road Home would protect it, but it wouldn't get triggers from the wipe because it comes back after the wipe resolves, I assume.
January 15, 2017 3:09 p.m.
Drat. I've been trying to find a way to play the Yahenni's Expertise with a Yahenni, Undying Partisan already on the field without needing a +*/ +2 card
January 15, 2017 3:31 p.m.
Well, there is Long Road Home that will accomplish that goal and is currently in standard.
January 16, 2017 3:55 a.m.
All you really need is Yahenni to already have two or more counters, meaning two of your opponents' creatures will have to die before you cast Expertise, probably most easily with something like Chandra's Pyrohelix.
Also, since you were asking about the stack in particular, I feel like adding that you would really have to cast whichever card in response to Expertise, as casting it as part of the resolution of Expertise will have creatures with toughness 0 or less because of the -3/-3 effect be put in the graveyard before the spell you cast as part of the resolution resolves. They will still be on the battlefield when you cast the spell (because state-based actions aren't checked until after a spell resolves completely), though, so you could determine any creature with toughness 0 or less as a target for a spell, but that spell will be countered when it would resolve, as Yahenni will be in your graveyard by that time.
Named_Tawyny says... #1
If you Blink Yahenni, Undying Partisan they'll return to the board right away, and will be affected by the board-wipe, unfortunately.
January 15, 2017 3:03 p.m.