1. my opponent has a hill giant and a worldspine wurm. I have a ruthless deathfang and cast launch party sacrificing my squire, if I target worldspine wurm with launch party, does deathfang trigger first and allow my opponent to sac worldspine then countering launch party?
2. all the same scenario but instead of worldspine wurm the creature is it that betrays, then what? would my opponent get my squire and sac it?
3. lastly, My opponent has a 5/5 and 2 2/2 creatures. I use aven augur targeting both his 2 2/2, with deathfang, will my opponent be able to sac one of the 2/2s before they are returned?
4. last last, I have death fang and 5 1/1 creatures. My opponent has 5 3/3 creatures and 5 untaped lands. I cast fade away will they have the option to wait to see what creature I sac to fade away before committing to pay or sac?
Casting launch party puts it on the stack, the additional cost of sacrificing a creature triggers ruthless deathfangs ability, putting it on the stack on top of launch party meaning it will resolve first. Your opponent then indeed can sacrifice worldspine wurm causing launch party to be countered due to no longer having a legal target. In the second scenario, replacing your opponents worldspine wurm with it that betrays, We need to know whose turn it is. If it is your turn, the stack would be launch party on bottom, then deathfang, then itb. Your opponent would have your squire that he could choose to sac to deathfang, and launch party would then resolve destroying whichever creature you targeted when casting. If it is your opponents turn however, the stack would be launch, itb, deathfang. In this situation, your opponent would have to sacrifice either the hill giant or itb BEFORE gaining your squire. APNAP
3 is the same scenario as 1 except that it involves an activated ability instead of a spell. The process is essentially the same - you put the ability onto the stack and then pay the costs, triggering Deathfang which goes onto the stack above the ability. Your opponent will be prompted to sacrifice a creature before Augur's ability resolves.
4 is another question that depends on turn order. When you resolve Fade Away, each player in turn order starting with the active player decides whether to pay or sacrifice, then all of those actions happen at once. A player who is later in the turn order will know what choices were made by a player who came earlier in the order. Under normal circumstances, since Fade Away is a sorcery, this means that your opponent will know whether you are going to sacrifice your creatures at the point where they are making the decision. If you somehow manage to cast Fade Away during your opponent's turn, they won't know your choices first.
(Side note: It's preferable to add new questions in a later post, or in a different thread if the question isn't related, rather than editing them into the original post. Editing them in makes it less clear what's been answered.)
3) Yes. The Deathfang's trigger is put on top of the Aven's ability (since the sacrifice happend during its activation, and the first thing that you do when activating an ability or casting a spell is to put it on the stack) and will resolve before it.
10/4/2004 At the beginning of the resolution, each player counts up the number of creatures they control, then they make the required number of payments and/or sacrifices. The active player announces their choices first followed by the other players, but all the sacrifices are done at the same time. Because of this, you can't sacrifice one creature in order to pay for another and thereby avoid payment for the first.
So yes, the other players will know which creatures you are going to keep and which you're going to sacrifice when they make their choices, since barring exceptional circumstances which allow you to cast FA with another timing than sorcery timing, you're the active player.
last last, with blind zealot and death fang...my opponent has a 1/1 and a 7/7, I deal combat damage with blind zealot, then sac it, can I target after my opponent sacs or do I have to target before the sac?
Thank you to all, you could play mtg for 20 years and still need help on rulings.
last last, with blind zealot and death fang...my opponent has a 1/1 and a 7/7, I deal combat damage with blind zealot, then sac it, can I target after my opponent sacs or do I have to target before the sac?
Blind zealot's ability target creature , while Ruthless deathfang's ability target player (your opponent).
The situation will be like this ;
Your Zealot deal combat damage to your opponent , Zealot's ability trigger.
This ability is put on the stack , you have to choose a target creature your opponent control for it. ( a 1/1 or 7/7 , your choice)
Then if no one does nothing else , this ability resolves = you choose to sacrifice Zealot or not , if you do , then the target creature is destroyed. Ruthless deathfang's ability triggers as you sacrifice Zealot.
Ruthfang's ability is put on the stack , you have to choose which opponent you want to target (in multiplayers Game , you have more than one opponents).
If no one does anything else , this ability resolves = the target opponent sacrifice a creature. He/she choose which creature he/she control to sacrifice.In this case , your opponent control only 1/1 creature so he/she sacrifice it. If he/she control no creature at this time , the ability just resolves but does nothing.
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2. all the same scenario but instead of worldspine wurm the creature is it that betrays, then what? would my opponent get my squire and sac it?
3. lastly, My opponent has a 5/5 and 2 2/2 creatures. I use aven augur targeting both his 2 2/2, with deathfang, will my opponent be able to sac one of the 2/2s before they are returned?
4. last last, I have death fang and 5 1/1 creatures. My opponent has 5 3/3 creatures and 5 untaped lands. I cast fade away will they have the option to wait to see what creature I sac to fade away before committing to pay or sac?
4 is another question that depends on turn order. When you resolve Fade Away, each player in turn order starting with the active player decides whether to pay or sacrifice, then all of those actions happen at once. A player who is later in the turn order will know what choices were made by a player who came earlier in the order. Under normal circumstances, since Fade Away is a sorcery, this means that your opponent will know whether you are going to sacrifice your creatures at the point where they are making the decision. If you somehow manage to cast Fade Away during your opponent's turn, they won't know your choices first.
(Side note: It's preferable to add new questions in a later post, or in a different thread if the question isn't related, rather than editing them into the original post. Editing them in makes it less clear what's been answered.)
4) From Fade Away's gatherer rulings:
So yes, the other players will know which creatures you are going to keep and which you're going to sacrifice when they make their choices, since barring exceptional circumstances which allow you to cast FA with another timing than sorcery timing, you're the active player.
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Thank you to all, you could play mtg for 20 years and still need help on rulings.
Blind zealot's ability target creature , while Ruthless deathfang's ability target player (your opponent).
The situation will be like this ;
Your Zealot deal combat damage to your opponent , Zealot's ability trigger.
This ability is put on the stack , you have to choose a target creature your opponent control for it. ( a 1/1 or 7/7 , your choice)
Then if no one does nothing else , this ability resolves = you choose to sacrifice Zealot or not , if you do , then the target creature is destroyed. Ruthless deathfang's ability triggers as you sacrifice Zealot.
Ruthfang's ability is put on the stack , you have to choose which opponent you want to target (in multiplayers Game , you have more than one opponents).
If no one does anything else , this ability resolves = the target opponent sacrifice a creature. He/she choose which creature he/she control to sacrifice.In this case , your opponent control only 1/1 creature so he/she sacrifice it. If he/she control no creature at this time , the ability just resolves but does nothing.
Obviously , English is not my first Language (sorry about that ).