Hello all, I'd like some help with the following rules interactions. The situation is as follows: I'm playing Affinity, and my opponent cascades into Living End and chooses to cast it, and I respond by saccing all my creatures to Arcbound Ravager, then let the Ravager die to Living End. I've been told before that my modular then goes on the stack and I can set the counters on a creature I'll bring back through Living End's effect. So I have two questions:
a) how exactly does that work, i.e. how do the effects stack and resolve to allow this?
b) if one of the creatures my opponent is bringing back with Living End is Ingot Chewer, what happens first? Do I have to resolve modular first, or does Chewer have to target something first, allowing me to modular onto something else?
When living end resolves you do the instructions in order. You exile from your graveyard. You sac your Ravager, which triggers Modular, but the trigger does not yet go onto the stack. Continuing the resolution of Living End, Ingot Chewer and the other creatures are put into play, triggering their ETB effects. Living End is done resolving so now it's time to put the triggers onto the stack. This is when they target. The active player's triggers go onto the stack first so if it's your opponent's turn they would have to target an artifact with Chewer before you decided where to place your Modular. If they used Violent Outburst or the like on your turn it's worse for you.
So ultimately it comes down to whose turn it is, on their turn I'll get to modular after they blow something up, and on mine I won't? Thanks a lot for the explanation!
a) how exactly does that work, i.e. how do the effects stack and resolve to allow this?
b) if one of the creatures my opponent is bringing back with Living End is Ingot Chewer, what happens first? Do I have to resolve modular first, or does Chewer have to target something first, allowing me to modular onto something else?
Thanks!