{"id":2333,"date":"2012-08-22T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:41","slug":"triggers-can-trigger-at-any-time-but-wait-to-go-on-the-stack-until-a-player-would-get-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2012\/08\/triggers-can-trigger-at-any-time-but-wait-to-go-on-the-stack-until-a-player-would-get-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Triggers can trigger at any time, but wait to go on the stack until a player would get priority."},"content":{"rendered":"

I cast Solemn Simulacrum<\/a> while you control Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite<\/a>. What happens?<\/p>\n

After a creature spell resolves, a player receives priority. But it’s not as simple as that. Before priority can be received, first the game has to check for state-based actions (SBAs) – things like creatures with lethal damage dying, or +1\/+1 and -1\/-1 counters canceling each other out. Then after it makes a check where no SBAs are performed, the game checks for triggered abilities that have triggered since the last time a player received priority, and dumps them all on the stack. Finally, the player receives priority.<\/p>\n

So let’s apply this in practice to our Sad Robot. He resolves, and his enters-the-battlefield ability triggers. Because of Elesh Norn, he is a 0\/0 – and therefore he dies when SBAs are checked, which causes his leaves-the battlefield ability to trigger. Because two abilities triggered since the last time a player received priority, they go onto the stack at the same time, and I can order them in any way I choose – it doesn’t matter that one ability triggered before the other one. If I know what card is on top of my library and I want to draw it, I can do that, then search for a basic land card. Or I can search for the land first to reduce the chances that I’ll draw another land from Solemn’s death trigger.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by
\nJen Wong, Level 1 judge from Irvine, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cast while you control . What happens? After a creature spell resolves, a player receives priority. But it’s not as simple as that. Before priority can be received, first the game has to check for state-based actions (SBAs) – things like creatures with lethal damage dying, or +1\/+1 and -1\/-1 counters canceling each other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[753,756],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-basedactions","category-triggeredabilities","tag-elesh-norn","tag-solem-simulacrum","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}