I feel like I've asked this before, but cannot remember the answer. My question is whether or not Stubborn denial checks for Ferocious upon cast, resolution, or both. Here are two examples to help illustrate my question.
1. I control a death's shadow and am at 11 life making it a 2/2. My opponent controls an eidolon of the great revel and casts an instant. I cast Stubborn denial and take 2 from the eidolon trigger making my shadow a 4/4. Will ferocious turn denial into negate?
2. I control a 4/4 and my opponent casts an instant which I target with Stubborn denial. Before denial resolves they kill my only creature, is denial still a hard negate or does it turn into a bad force spike?
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Stubborn Denial has a selfreplacement effect. As such it applies to the effect of the spell, which you only get when the spell resolves. So you have to have a creature with power 4 or greater at that time to get the enhanced effect.
1) Yes, you control an appropriate creature as the spell resolves.
2) You only get the nonferocious effect of your spell, since the condition for the selfreplacement effect is not true.
1. I control a death's shadow and am at 11 life making it a 2/2. My opponent controls an eidolon of the great revel and casts an instant. I cast Stubborn denial and take 2 from the eidolon trigger making my shadow a 4/4. Will ferocious turn denial into negate?
2. I control a 4/4 and my opponent casts an instant which I target with Stubborn denial. Before denial resolves they kill my only creature, is denial still a hard negate or does it turn into a bad force spike?
1) Yes, you control an appropriate creature as the spell resolves.
2) You only get the nonferocious effect of your spell, since the condition for the selfreplacement effect is not true.
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