Hi. Thats what happened in the last game with a friend of mine.
He has a Forcemage Advocate with a +1/+1 counter on it making it a 3/2 total.
He activates its ability targetting a card in graveyard.
In response I cast a Sharpnel Blast on it.
In response he casts a Giant Growth on it giving +3/+3.
In my opinion it still dies because at the time my Sharpnel Blast resolves it is a 6/5 (2/1 base plus +1/+1 from the counter he already has and +3/+3 from Giant Growth) taking 5 damages, since the next +1/+1 counter he would get from its ability resolves last in the stack. Am i right or not?
In my opinion it still dies because at the time my Sharpnel Blast resolves it is a 6/5 (2/1 base plus +1/+1 from the counter he already has and +3/+3 from Giant Growth) taking 5 damages, since the next +1/+1 counter he would get from its ability resolves last in the stack. Am i right or not?
Yes, that's exactly right. Maybe someone doesn't realize that a cycle of priority happens after the Shrapnel Blast resolution?
116.3b The active player receives priority after a spell or ability (other than a mana ability) resolves.
116.5. Each time a player would get priority, the game first performs all applicable state-based actions
as a single event (see rule 704, “State-Based Actions”), then repeats this process until no state-based
actions are performed. Then triggered abilities are put on the stack (see rule 603, “Handling
Triggered Abilities”). These steps repeat in order until no further state-based actions are performed
and no abilities trigger. Then the player who would have received priority does so.
704.5. The state-based actions are as follows:
704.5g If a creature has toughness greater than 0, and the total damage marked on it is greater than
or equal to its toughness, that creature has been dealt lethal damage and is destroyed.
Regeneration can replace this event.
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He has a Forcemage Advocate with a +1/+1 counter on it making it a 3/2 total.
He activates its ability targetting a card in graveyard.
In response I cast a Sharpnel Blast on it.
In response he casts a Giant Growth on it giving +3/+3.
In my opinion it still dies because at the time my Sharpnel Blast resolves it is a 6/5 (2/1 base plus +1/+1 from the counter he already has and +3/+3 from Giant Growth) taking 5 damages, since the next +1/+1 counter he would get from its ability resolves last in the stack. Am i right or not?
Yes, that's exactly right. Maybe someone doesn't realize that a cycle of priority happens after the Shrapnel Blast resolution?