"Magic: The Gathering" Zone & Timing Rules : "Magic the Gathering" Stack Timing: Part 2

[truth2lies]

This stuff is helpfull if you're trying to become a rules advisor or judge, but otherwise just don't worry about it.

[CSHxTempo]

uhm, you know this is an essential part of the game, right? the stack is one of the most important interactions of the game. i don't know what you've been playing. solitaire maybe?

[technocorecorps]

@truth2lies lol are you kidding? without this, none of the counterspells work, think about it.

[lebmafiazo1]

complicated waw.

[rla117]

I understood it!

[DanielHoward777]

ffs people, this is not that complicated at all, when you both play spells in response to eachothers spells the last spell played resolves (takes effect) when you both done responding, then you just do down in that order.

don't listen to this guy he is making it sound too complicated and he isa douche bag -_-

[CTastic1]

He isn't making it complicated at all. This is how the game works. You're right that everyone plays spells and everyone takes short cuts and everything resolves and blah blah. But you need to know this if you want to do something against something that is 3 cards down on the stack. You have to know this so you get the timing. If you let the first spell resolve, priority gets passed back and forth again, then the second spell. Then the third. Now you can respond to the third with your own spell.

[CTastic1]

Once the other two spells that were "in your way" get off the stack. This is just a way to explain it to help people understand that once the stack starts resolving it isn't locked in. You can have 6 spells on the stack. let 3 resolve, then start putting more on the stack, and keep going as long as you have instants to play. I use this to my advantage a lot. You need to know this so you can use it to your advantage properly. It isn't hard at all once you get use to it.

[kingxofxsuede]

So if I play a card that does something (not important for this example) to a creature and the other person counters it and then I play another spell that happens to lower the toughness to < 0, then that card goes straight to the graveyard?

And can you counter a counter, thus negating the effect?

[schupo]

This is what turns so many people away from this game.

[Uejji]

This is really overcomplicating the process. In practice it's really simple -- instant and triggered abilities resolve in reverse the order they were played or triggered.

[conjurephoenix]

Once faceless butcher's ability is the final thing on the stack the dude mentions that "because there are no other creatures in play it is countered" as in it suggests that a new target could have been chosen if some other creature was out in play... is that possible? I just thought that since faceless butcher's original target is no longer in play it is countered and that a new one cannot be chosen..?? hope that makes sense.

[garthok84]

That is correct. The triggered ability of Faceless Butcher is actually countered due to the original target now being an illegal target(since it does not exist)

[interludexx]

as true all this is, i feel it is unnecessary to go thought this giant flow chart everytime. Most of this is just TCG common sense. I would only refer to this unless there is some sort of problem or discrepancy .

[forXION]

i had no idea that there were so many steps going on in the 15 seconds it takes me and my buddies to play that many spells... i'm enlightened. i mean i realized there was a stack but i didn't know that you had to check for state based abilities every time a player could gain priority. insane is wizards, truly.

[74LOL74]

WTF?!?

[bbbbbb222222]

wtf

[DavidMTG09]

WTf?!

[Panixomfg]

8th?

[Delphion]

Damn! What dont they do!?

[coolglock19]

he pan?

[XpSports]

WTF?

[esrb95ruger]

WTFFF? 5 lol

[XpSports]

ha the sixth

ha das sechste [german]

ha le sixième [french]

ха шестое [russian]

aha el sexto [spanish]

ai o sexto [portugese]

[esrb95ruger]

wooah

[denver199415]

wtf?

[tehdestroyerer]

3rd

[poisonviper1]

4th

[lincecum55cyyoung]

1st