Let's say I have a Child of Alara enchanted with a Journey to Eterniy and I sacrifice it by activating a Witch's Oven. Am I able to make it so that I end up with an Atzal, Cave of Eternity, a resurrected Child of Alara and two food tokens after everything resolves? If not, please explain why and what the actual best outcome should be.
Yes, that's possible. All you have to do is put Child of Alara's trigger on top of the stack above the trigger from Journey to Eternity. The Oven's activated ability is already at the bottom of the stack. So the Child's trigger resolves first, destroying all nonland permanents. Then Journey will bring the Child and Atzal back from the graveyard. Then you get two food tokens.
Wether that is the best possible thing to happen depends on the specific game, and evaluating that is outside the scope of the rules forum.
edit: Of course, stacking the triggers in reverse order will have the same outcome, since the Child only destroys nonland permanents, and Atzal is a land. So Atzal already being on the field when the Child's trigger resolves changes nothing. Unless you use it to return a creature before the Child's trigger destroys everything. Potentially getting you a dies trigger from that reanimated creature being destroyed by the Child.
Let's say I have a Child of Alara enchanted with a Journey to Eterniy and I sacrifice it by activating a Witch's Oven. Am I able to make it so that I end up with an Atzal, Cave of Eternity, a resurrected Child of Alara and two food tokens after everything resolves? If not, please explain why and what the actual best outcome should be.
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Wether that is the best possible thing to happen depends on the specific game, and evaluating that is outside the scope of the rules forum.
edit:
Of course, stacking the triggers in reverse order will have the same outcome, since the Child only destroys nonland permanents, and Atzal is a land. So Atzal already being on the field when the Child's trigger resolves changes nothing. Unless you use it to return a creature before the Child's trigger destroys everything. Potentially getting you a dies trigger from that reanimated creature being destroyed by the Child.Former Rules Advisor
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In the reverse order, the returned Child will get destroyed by the old Child's triggered ability. (And the new Child sets off another dies trigger.)