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Yes; you can do it during your upkeep so you don’t lose from attempting to draw a card from an empty library.
When can you cast an instant?
Sorceries may only be cast during the player’s own main phases, and only when the stack is empty. Instants, on the other hand, can be cast at any time, including during other players’ turns and while another spell or ability is waiting to resolve.
Can you cast an instant without priority?
117.1a A player may cast an instant spell any time they have priority. A player may cast a noninstant spell during their main phase any time they have priority and the stack is empty.
Can you cast spells during your draw step?
The first thing players do during their draw step is draw a card. Then each player gets priority to cast spells if they want. You are able to do what you want in this situation and can tap their land before the main phase. Yes you can play spells after you draw your card in the draw step.
Can you play an instant before untap step?
The most common question about this is, “Can I do something in my untap step before I untap?” And the answer is “No.” Your last chance to do anything before you untap is your opponent’s end step.
Can you counter an instant with an instant?
Yes you can. Shock will on the stack so you can use Gian grown to put it above Shock on the stack resolving before shock is resolved and this way Your creature survives.
Can you tap at instant speed?
Yes, you can tap activate the abilities of a permanent in response to an instant. Yes, it will save your Sliver.
Can you cast an instant in response to your own instant?
Yes, but to do so you must say you intend to keep priority the moment you cast the sorcery.
Can you cast an instant on untap step?
No player receives priority during the untap step, so no spells can be cast or resolve and no abilities can be activated or resolve. Any ability that triggers during this step will be held until the next time a player would receive priority, which is usually during the upkeep step. (See rule 503, “Upkeep Step.”).
Are activated abilities instant speed?
602.5e. Activated abilities that read “Activate this ability only any time you could cast an instant” mean the player must follow the timing rules for casting an instant spell, though the ability isn’t actually an instant. The player doesn’t actually need to have an instant card that he or she could cast.
Can you cast an instant during opponent’s upkeep?
You can do so as soon as you have priority but since it is their turn the soonest chance you will get will be in response to the trigger of ring’s ability. Even if you destroy the artifact the ability is independent and will resolve granting the creature a +1/+1 as long as it is the appropriate color.
Do you untap before upkeep?
Upkeep Step – This happens directly after untap and is the first time players may take action during a turn. Abilities that trigger at the beginning of upkeep go on the stack, and then players can play instants and abilities. Once that is done, both players may play spells and abilities.
What is SCRY magic?
Scry is a keyword action that allows a player to look at a certain number of cards from the top of their library and put them on the bottom of the library or back on top in any order.
Can you cast between untap and upkeep?
So, I’m not a judge (yet) but I’m working on it – so take this with a grain of salt. Regarding casting during untap: The first time you get Priority on your turn is during the Upkeep step – which is after untap. So you can’t do what you described. (502.3: No player receives priority during the untap step.).
Can you play a land in response to an instant?
305.1. A player who has priority may play a land card from their hand during a main phase of their turn when the stack is empty. Since the land doesn’t go on the stack, it is never a spell, and players can’t respond to it with instants or activated abilities.
Can you play an instant on upkeep?
Yes, however, in general you can cast instants before a “beginning of your upkeep” triggered ability resolves. You cannot, however, do it before that ability gets triggered and goes on the stack, which is what messes up your plan.
What is flying in Magic The Gathering?
Flying is an evergreen evasion ability that makes creatures without flying unable to block creatures with flying. It has been in Magic since the original Alpha set. It was the first mechanic that Richard Garfield designed for the game.
Is tapping land an activated ability?
Tapping a land doesn’t actually produce mana, activating its ability does. Tapping is merely the paying of the cost to do so. Unlike abilities that read “Whenever enchanted land is tapped”, it’s not actually tapping the land that causes Underworld Connections’s effect.
Do triggered abilities go on the stack?
Some triggered abilities’ effects are optional (they contain “may,” as in “At the beginning of your upkeep, you may draw a card”). These abilities go on the stack when they trigger, regardless of whether their controller intends to exercise the ability’s option or not. The choice is made when the ability resolves.
Can you use an activated ability while tapped?
From the MTG rules: 302.6. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol or the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since his or her most recent turn began.
Can you counter an instant with a sorcery?
In simplest terms possible: Your opponent can cast any instants in response to your sorcery, but he’ll still have to discard 2 cards if he has any. so, if you cast mind rot, your opponent can’t choose 2 instants to discard and cast them instead. He can cast instants before he chooses.
