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Yesterday

"...players can respond and add things to the stack during the resolution of Fiery Encore because it puts new things on the stack to resolve as itself is resolving?"

I was responding to this specifically. No actions can be taken during the resolution of a spell or ability except for what it says. You can cast a spell as part of the resolution of Baral's Expertise, but that doesn't create an instant round of priority. You finish resolving Baral's Expertise and then a new round of priority happens as normal, during which people can respond to the spell Expertise let you cast.

To clarify about casting during an effect's resolution: if a card like Baral's Expertise lets you cast a spell as part of its resolution, the casting takes place while Baral's Expertise is resolving. You will make choices, select targets, and put it on the stack, but neither you nor anyone else gets priority until Baral's Expertise finishes resolving, including any effects it has after casting the spell. After it finishes, priority passes as usual and players can respond to the spell you've cast.

Basically, watch out for Moonmist and Poppet Stitcher  ^Flip together, as this combo can cause some of the shenanigans mentioned here.

Yeah, this is one of those cards that had a very simple idea that turns into a wall of rules text. The simple version is that you enchant a dead creature and bring it back to life (slightly weaker), and it dies if it loses Animate Dead.

The current printing, by the way, is Eternal Masters (an all-reprint set full of old cards), though it does look like Theros. Masters sets have different rarity scaling since they contain a far higher power level than a normal set, so you'll see crazy effects like this with the uncommon symbol.

Basically, to "become" tapped, a permanent needs to be untapped and then become tapped. If it enters tapped, or if it is already tapped and another effect tries to tap it, it won't become tapped (for example, you'll only trigger Immersturm Predator's middle ability once in your average turn, no matter how many creatures you sacrifice to it).