I apologize for all the questions I have to ask but here's another I haven't confronted when playing with my son. When he plays Summary Dismissal does that wipe out my whole board only or his also?? Or am I on another planet? I read it as a basic spell blocker??
He's basically trying to use this as a board wipe for all my creatures....but I don't read it that way at all.
It basically erases the stack. A 'spell' is an object on the stack waiting to resolve. So it exiles all cards waiting to resolve, and counters all abilities. It doesn't affect anyting on the battlefield or anywhere else. And it doesn't pick and choose, it takes out everyone's spells and abilities.
It basically erases the stack. A 'spell' is an object on the stack waiting to resolve. So it exiles all cards waiting to resolve, and counters all abilities. It doesn't affect anyting on the battlefield or anywhere else. And it doesn't pick and choose, it takes out everyone's spells and abilities.
Excellent, I had just gone and looked up the definition of spell and came up with exactly what you said. Thanks for the help.
Does this mean that Summary Dismissal can't be countered? Say another player adds a Negate to the stack targeting my Summary Dismissal. My Summary Dismissal will never resolve, correct?
Does this mean that Summary Dismissal can't be countered? Say another player adds a Negate to the stack targeting my Summary Dismissal. My Summary Dismissal will never resolve, correct?
Correct. Objects on the stack resolve in a first in last out order so before Summary Dismissal can resolve and exile everything else on the stack another play can cast negate targetting it to prevent it from doing anything.
Does Summary Dismissal exile the various 'cast' effects of the Eldrazi?
Casting Summary Dismissal after the cast trigger of a card like Emrakul, the Promised End is put on the stack will both counter the ability (rather than exiling it, but it doesn't make much difference) and exile the creature spell.
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He's basically trying to use this as a board wipe for all my creatures....but I don't read it that way at all.
Excellent, I had just gone and looked up the definition of spell and came up with exactly what you said. Thanks for the help.
Correct. Objects on the stack resolve in a first in last out order so before Summary Dismissal can resolve and exile everything else on the stack another play can cast negate targetting it to prevent it from doing anything.
This is no huge deal, but in the future, please post separate questions in their own thread rather than hijacking another thread about the same card, unless your question is a direct follow-up to the thread's previous question and requires that context (especially if that other thread is old). This helps make the Rulings forum a better searchable resource. With your question answered, I'm going to lock this thread, as we want to avoid it becoming a repository for other new questions about Summary Dismissal. Thank you!