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Brody Rogers
Aiden Nelson
If I have no cards in my hand, and use an effect that says "Draw a card, then discard a card" during my opponent's turn and draw a card with Miracle, can I cast the card with its Miracle effect before I discard it, or do I have to finish resolving the Draw+Discard effect first?
Sorry for the run-on sentence
Liam Ward
Unfortunately for you, Miracle trigger doesn't go on the stack until after the effect resolves. So the order happens like this:
>Loot Ability starts resolving
>Oh look, a Miracle. This trigger is going to go on the stack as soon as this finishes resolving.
>Loot ability finishes resolving
>Miracle ability goes on the stack
However, since the card is no longer in your hand, all you're left with is the theoretical comfort of a miracle.
Zachary Perry
Good question!
There are two important things to realize here:
first; nothing can interrupt a spell or ability. Once it starts to resolve, it cannot stop until it's done.
second; when an ability triggers, it won't go on the stack immediately. It'll wait around until state based actions are checked, in other words, the next time a player has priority.
So in this case, you draw, miracle triggers and you reveal it, you discard the miracle. Then the miracle's trigger goes on the stack, but when it resolves it can't find the miracle in your hand, so nothing happens.
tl;dr
You gotta finish the draw discard first so no bueno.
Oliver Nelson
Man, greentext makes everything better. I feel like this is an easier to understand explanation.
James Rogers
It's okay, you're still learning how to do this. Answering questions is hard and nobody appreciates that.
Levi Young
If I have a Titania, Protector of Argoth in play with 10 lands in play. I play Obliterate, will I have 10 Titania's tokens after the Obliterate resolves?
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Joshua Clark
aww, thanks. You're a cool guy too
Yup, Titania will "see" all the lands dying even if she dies with them, then her ability resolves after obliterate so the tokens won't die from it.
Aiden Reyes
Thanks friend. And what about Hazezon Tamar, if I play him while having 8 land and before my next upkeep someone cast armageddon. Will there be 8 sand warriors token or 0 entering the battlefield at the beggining of the upkeep?
Nolan Taylor
if i have an erayo's essence, is it possible to target their first spell with a counterspell anyway? or does it just get immediately countered and never enter the stack? it's a real niche, but i've always been curious