{"id":1099,"date":"2011-09-19T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:07:07","slug":"special-actions-do-not-use-the-stack-and-cannot-be-responded-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/09\/special-actions-do-not-use-the-stack-and-cannot-be-responded-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Special actions do not use the stack and cannot be responded to."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in Magic there are six special actions, one of them only applies when playing the Planechase variant (rolling the planar die). The most common special action would be playing a land.  However you may come across one of the other special actions from time to time, they are, turning a face down card face up, paying a cost to end a continuous effect, or taking advantage of a suspend ability and suspending a card.<\/p>\n<p>Special actions can only be performed when you have priority, and in many cases have other timing restrictions.  For example playing a land or suspending a card can only happen in one of the main phases of your turn.  In other words, just like casting a spell or activating an ability you must wait your turn in order to do them.<\/p>\n<p>However performing a special action is not something that uses the stack and cannot be responded to.  After playing a land you will still have priority.  For example, your opponent cannot cast a spell &#8216;in response&#8217; to you playing a land before you get the opportunity to play spells and abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently in Magic there are six special actions, one of them only applies when playing the Planechase variant (rolling the planar die). The most common special action would be playing a land. However you may come across one of the other special actions from time to time, they are, turning a face down card face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/4829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}