I had a game the other night where I had a field of x/2s and my opponent casts a pyroclasm and I had a restoration angel in hand. If I had flashed in the restoration angel blinking one of the creatures would it have survived or would it have entered again to get hit? I also don't entirely understand priority if it matters in this situation how would that work and would it change anything?
In the case of Restoration Angel, it wouldnt matter. The entirety of the Angels ability exiles the creature and has it reenter the battlefield, which will all happen before the Pyroclasm resolves.
If, for example, you were using the Angel in response to a Shock then your creature would survive, since the creature the Shock targeted is no longer on the battlefield as it left and returned as a new creature.
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The blinked creature returns before the Pyroclasm burns everything, so it too will be burned as the sorcery deals damage to each creature that is on the field at the time of its resolution.
Priority is the right to act, nothing more. Only the player with priority can initiate casting a spell, activating an ability, or take a special action. And only one player at most can have priority at a time. If that player uses priority to do something, he loses it, and no one has priority. Once he has finished his action, priority is given back to him. If he passes priority, the next player in turn order gains priority and can do stuff. And so on. For any object on the stack to resolve (spells, activated abilities, triggered abilities) all players must pass priority in succession while it is the top most object. Then that object, and only that one, resolves.
There are three basic rules for who gets priority:
- the active player gets priority first during each step and phase where priority is given
- the active player gets priority after any object on the stack has resolved
- the player who took an action with priority gets it back afterwards
In your scenario, the active player used priority to cast Pyroclasm. He got priority back and passed. Then the other player got priority and cast Restoration Angel. He got priority back and passsed. The active player passed as well, so now the Angel spell got to resolve and the creature entered the battlefield. Before the active player receives priority, the Angel's trigger was put on the stack on top of the Pyroclasm. Both players passed priority, so that ability resolved, exiling and immediately returning the targeted creature. Again, the active player and then the nonactive player passed priority, so finally the Pyroclam got to resolve, dealing 2 damage to each creature, including the blinked one and the angel. Then the active player has priority again.
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If, for example, you were using the Angel in response to a Shock then your creature would survive, since the creature the Shock targeted is no longer on the battlefield as it left and returned as a new creature.
Priority is the right to act, nothing more. Only the player with priority can initiate casting a spell, activating an ability, or take a special action. And only one player at most can have priority at a time. If that player uses priority to do something, he loses it, and no one has priority. Once he has finished his action, priority is given back to him. If he passes priority, the next player in turn order gains priority and can do stuff. And so on. For any object on the stack to resolve (spells, activated abilities, triggered abilities) all players must pass priority in succession while it is the top most object. Then that object, and only that one, resolves.
There are three basic rules for who gets priority:
- the active player gets priority first during each step and phase where priority is given
- the active player gets priority after any object on the stack has resolved
- the player who took an action with priority gets it back afterwards
In your scenario, the active player used priority to cast Pyroclasm. He got priority back and passed. Then the other player got priority and cast Restoration Angel. He got priority back and passsed. The active player passed as well, so now the Angel spell got to resolve and the creature entered the battlefield. Before the active player receives priority, the Angel's trigger was put on the stack on top of the Pyroclasm. Both players passed priority, so that ability resolved, exiling and immediately returning the targeted creature. Again, the active player and then the nonactive player passed priority, so finally the Pyroclam got to resolve, dealing 2 damage to each creature, including the blinked one and the angel. Then the active player has priority again.
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