My opponent has future sight with clone on the top of the deck face up. I have a Scrib Nibblers. Opponent wants to play the clone, can I exile the top card of the library w my Scribs, or will the clone come into play? Would it be different if there was an instant on top of the library?
Thanks for the help!
My opponent has future sight with clone on the top of the deck face up. I have a Scrib Nibblers. Opponent wants to play the clone, can I exile the top card of the library w my Scribs, or will the clone come into play?
Once it's your opponent's main phase, if they want to cast Clone, they get to do so because they have priority due to being the active player. If they say they don't want to cast any spells, priority passes to you. At that point, you can activate the Scrib Nibblers. Because Future Sight doesn't affect timing restrictions, they can't respond to the Nibblers' activated ability with a creature spell, so the Clone gets exiled.
If it's not your opponent's main phase, they can't cast Clone at all, because Future Sight doesn't affect timing restrictions.
Would it be different if there was an instant on top of the library?
Yes, it would be different.
If they cast the instant first, it moves from the library to the stack. A new card is revealed on the top of their library before you can activate Scrib Nibblers.
If you activate Scrib Nibblers first, they can respond by casting the instant. This happens before Scrib Nibblers' activated ability resolved, moving the instant from the library to the stack and revealing the next card in their library. It's that new card which gets exiled, not the instant that's being cast.
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Thanks for the help!
Once it's your opponent's main phase, if they want to cast Clone, they get to do so because they have priority due to being the active player. If they say they don't want to cast any spells, priority passes to you. At that point, you can activate the Scrib Nibblers. Because Future Sight doesn't affect timing restrictions, they can't respond to the Nibblers' activated ability with a creature spell, so the Clone gets exiled.
If it's not your opponent's main phase, they can't cast Clone at all, because Future Sight doesn't affect timing restrictions.
Yes, it would be different.
If they cast the instant first, it moves from the library to the stack. A new card is revealed on the top of their library before you can activate Scrib Nibblers.
If you activate Scrib Nibblers first, they can respond by casting the instant. This happens before Scrib Nibblers' activated ability resolved, moving the instant from the library to the stack and revealing the next card in their library. It's that new card which gets exiled, not the instant that's being cast.