A spell goes on the stack.. its been paid for... but can be countered. An ability goes on the same stack and can't be countered by counter spells. tapping a creature to stop a tap effect was the only way to help create a solution for such effects. Royal Assassin taps to destroy a target creature.. i use my creature to tap it... royal Assassin goes on the stack then my tap spell/creature ability goes on the stack. i tap a creature that requires to tap as a cost but you say it has already been payed for.. so in result my tap effect even though resolves first does nothing because of a cost which couldn't be paid due to it being tapped.. (in response to you declaring it tapping i tap it to stop its effect from being paid using the card). i am going by official rules of MTG. Stack rules, ability rules and the Golden Rule (do what the card says). tapping is part of the cost so using a tap spell while trying to pay the cost prevents such cost from being forfilled due to an interference effect... the ability is stopped, unable to forfill the cost from the card. i will except the ruling set down by MTG regardless but i am protesting that a card must be able to forfill its own ability without help.. hint tapping to tap a creature... it doesn't say when Royal assassin is tapped destroy target creature.. it says tap royal assassin (using his own tap ability) destroy target creature... now what if i lightning bolt royal assassin after he has tapped and is still of the stack.. by stack rule he dies before his effect happens as long as lightning bolt is on top (last played).. Royal assassins ability does not happen.. its just death to him and there is no effect from him... just dust.. STACK+GOLDEN RULE= Awesome game.. don't take the fun out of it.
Complete and utter nonsense, thread necromancy, and spam. Not a good first post. -Woap
Complete and utter nonsense, thread necromancy, and spam. Not a good first post. -Woap