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Topic: Rules Question
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B-Town Member
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posted April 21, 2017 01:44 PM
I mainly play a pretty casual version of EDH with some friends. Recently, though, we've had some arguments mid game stemming from the fact that it's tough to enforce rules equally when we're not following them as closely as we could be. So that said, I have a question about the main phase for any experts/judges on the board.I play a Breya deck and have the following cards on the battlefield: Marionette Master (with 3 +1/+1 counters), Daretti Scrap Savant, and Dack Fayden. My main phase starts and I do the following. +1 loyalty counter on Dack Fayden - draw 2 cards, then discard 2 artifact cards +2 loyalty counter on Daretti - discard 2 artifacts, draw 2 cards So at this point, I've put 4 artifacts in the graveyard during the main phase, each triggering 4 damage per Marionette Master's static ability. Do I have to resolve each of these instances of damage as they happen? Or can I continue with my main phase, and tally everything prior to starting my combat phase? Thanks in advance.
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chaos021 Member
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posted April 21, 2017 01:50 PM
That's wrong. Marionette Master's ability literally says "Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power." The artifacts that are hitting your graveyard are coming from your hand. They don't trigger Marionette Master's ability.Even if it did work that way (which it doesn't), you have to resolve all triggers before "moving on" to whatever is next. That's just the way Magic works in general. Btw, we have a forum thread for rules questions.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by chaos021 on April 21, 2017]
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B-Town Member
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posted April 21, 2017 07:30 PM
quote: Originally posted by chaos021: That's wrong. Marionette Master's ability literally says "Whenever an artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses life equal to Marionette Master's power." The artifacts that are hitting your graveyard are coming from your hand. They don't trigger Marionette Master's ability.Even if it did work that way (which it doesn't), you have to resolve all triggers before "moving on" to whatever is next. That's just the way Magic works in general. Btw, we have a forum thread for rules questions.
I tried to find that thread, but must not have gone far enough back. And this was a hastily thrown together scenario, but I think I get the gist from your answer. Thanks for clarifying.
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mm1983 Member
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posted April 22, 2017 06:45 AM
Plus abilities for Dack and Daretti won't work with Marionette Master however Daretti's -2 ability would trigger the Marionette Master.
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B-Town Member
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posted April 24, 2017 12:09 PM
quote: Originally posted by mm1983: Plus abilities for Dack and Daretti won't work with Marionette Master however Daretti's -2 ability would trigger the Marionette Master.
Thanks. And like I said earlier, bad example on my part. I was trying to recreate something that happened with someone else's deck in my game, but used cards from my deck because I didn't remember which cards were involved. I put together a flawed scenario and failed miserably! I guess I should have just asked if triggered abilities in the main phase have to be used/resolved immediately once they triggered, or can a player resolve any number of them at the end of their main step? Based on what I've seen in this thread, the triggered abilities would have to be initiated immediately after the action that triggered them.
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iccarus Member
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posted April 24, 2017 12:33 PM
quote: Originally posted by B-Town: Based on what I've seen in this thread, the triggered abilities would have to be initiated immediately after the action that triggered them.
Correct. Once a trigger is on the stack, it must be resolved before the game can proceed. You can put other triggers on the stack at instant speed, but you can't actually cast a non-instant spell or play a land until the stack is clear again.
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