Player A. casts Polymorph on his only creature and the first revealed creature is Body Double
Neither player has anything else in the grave at this point, how exactly would this play out? Would the other creature already be in the grave for Body Double to assimilate or would it "pass by" the poor Double which is forced to come into play as a 0/0.
You follow the instructions on the card in order, so the first thing that is done is destroy a creature. This immediately puts it into the graveyard, so if Body Double is revealed, it will see the creature in the graveyard and will be able to come into play as a copy of that creature.
You perform instructions from a spell or ability in the order they are written on the card. So the creature is destroyed first and is already in the graveyard when the body double would enter the battlefield. So that creature can legally be choose to copy by the body double as it enters the battlefield.
You follow the instructions on the card in order, so the first thing that is done is destroy a creature. This immediately puts it into the graveyard, so if Body Double is revealed, it will see the creature in the graveyard and will be able to come into play as a copy of that creature.
State based actions are checked when a player would get priority, not as a "whenever" condition. No player gets priority between the time polymorph "destroys" the creature and the time the library is searched and thus there is no time to move the destroyed creature to the graveyard. See the card specific ruling for how a static ability would stop the creature from entering the graveyard and extrapolate:
7/1/2013 If the targeted creature has indestructible, it's still a legal target -- it just isn't destroyed. The rest of Polymorph's effect happens as normal.
When the body double is put on the battlefield in the case shown in OP, there is no creature in graveyard to copy. The "enters the battlefield" part of body double has to have a target the moment the "whenever" triggers - so they "pass by" each other on battlefield.
WHen the poly does the act of destruction it moves the creature into the grave then, there is no SBA that says to move a destroyed creature into grave. So it will be there for the body double to see.
That ruling on poly is covered by the rule that says ignore the impossible on a card (can't destroy an indestructible).
You follow the instructions on the card in order, so the first thing that is done is destroy a creature. This immediately puts it into the graveyard, so if Body Double is revealed, it will see the creature in the graveyard and will be able to come into play as a copy of that creature.
State based actions are checked when a player would get priority, not as a "whenever" condition. No player gets priority between the time polymorph "destroys" the creature and the time the library is searched and thus there is no time to move the destroyed creature to the graveyard.
While you are correct that SBAs do not occur between the targeted creature being destroyed and the Body Double entering the battlefield, destruction is not a SBA. (Lethal damage causes destruction as an SBA, though, which may be where you're getting confused.)
@Elder_Silver_Dragong: This imaginary card would work the way you think because the creature wouldn't hit the yard until SBA's moved it there, after it finished resolving.
Fiendish Polymorph - Fiendish Polymorph deals 666 damage to target creature. Its controller reveals cards from the top of his or her library until he or she reveals a creature card. The player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into his or her library.
Wow, Stuffy Doll would LOVE that fiendish polymorph.
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Neither player has anything else in the grave at this point, how exactly would this play out? Would the other creature already be in the grave for Body Double to assimilate or would it "pass by" the poor Double which is forced to come into play as a 0/0.
State based actions are checked when a player would get priority, not as a "whenever" condition. No player gets priority between the time polymorph "destroys" the creature and the time the library is searched and thus there is no time to move the destroyed creature to the graveyard. See the card specific ruling for how a static ability would stop the creature from entering the graveyard and extrapolate:
When the body double is put on the battlefield in the case shown in OP, there is no creature in graveyard to copy. The "enters the battlefield" part of body double has to have a target the moment the "whenever" triggers - so they "pass by" each other on battlefield.
That ruling on poly is covered by the rule that says ignore the impossible on a card (can't destroy an indestructible).
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Wow, Stuffy Doll would LOVE that fiendish polymorph.