Just a simple question on Steppe Lynx, since I'm ordering this card. First main phase of my turn, have a lynx in play. Stack is empty, I try to play a land. Can the opponent respond by lava dart the lynx, before it get the bonus from landfall?
1. You play your land, lynx ability goes on the stack
2. You pass priority, opponent can respond to the lynx ability,
Plays lava dart, lava dart goes on stack
3. Lava dart resolves. Zaps lynx. Lynx dies
4. Lynx ability resolves, but lynx is gone. Fizzles.
I think it works that way
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Just a simple question on Steppe Lynx, since I'm ordering this card. First main phase of my turn, have a lynx in play. Stack is empty, I try to play a land. Can the opponent respond by lava dart the lynx, before it get the bonus from landfall?
Your opponent can't respond to the playing of a land, which is a special action that doesn't use the stack. However, they can respond the lynx's landfall ability, which is a normal triggered ability (starting with 'whenever') and does use the stack. With the landfall ability on the stack, they can cast Lava Dart and destroy the Lynx while it's still 0/1. You'd need your land to be somesort of fetchland to one-up them and respond by triggering the landfall ability a second time on top of the Dart.
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1. You play your land, lynx ability goes on the stack
2. You pass priority, opponent can respond to the lynx ability,
Plays lava dart, lava dart goes on stack
3. Lava dart resolves. Zaps lynx. Lynx dies
4. Lynx ability resolves, but lynx is gone. Fizzles.
I think it works that way
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Oooh Dicey:
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the deck I'm putting lynx in does have 12 fetchlands on it.
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