Sacrifice rule, please help.
Asked by robertsson_olof 2 years ago
Hi If i put the ability of Feldons Cane on the stack, can i then sacrifice it and have the effect of the cane still happening? The rule text for feldons cane is "Exile Feldon's Cane: Shuffle your graveyard into your library." so the feldons cane activation dosent requires you to sacrifice the card as part of ther casting cost. I'm propibly missing something and if any of you have more knowledge please help me understand :)
It's also worth noting that you aren't really sacrificing it since you are exiling it. This doesn't change what legendofa said above though, exiling it is paying a cost, and the ability doesn't go onto the stack until the "cost" of exiling it is paid, so there is no double dipping. This is true of all effects where sacrificing or exiling acitivates an ability.
May 9, 2022 8:20 a.m.
robertsson_olof says... #3
Okey thanks for answers. The ide is for Old school mtg and to use it and the sacrifice it to sage of lat-nam to get the effect of the cane and then to draw a card from sacrificing it to sage of lat-nam. But if exileing is part of the cost, if it where to be disenchant as response to activation, what happens then?
May 10, 2022 2:16 a.m.
Gidgetimer says... #4
It wouldn't be targetable by Disenchant because it was exiled as the cost of activating the ability. There is no point after you announce that you are activating Feldon's Cane but before you pay the costs that anyone ever has priority.
May 10, 2022 3 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #6
robertsson_olof: Since it's clear you got a satisfactory answer to your question and there don't seem to be any further follow-ups or corrections to be made, I marked one of them as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response you feel best answers your question.
legendofa says... Accepted answer #1
Once the cost for Feldon's Cane has been paid and it's exiled, it is no longer on the battlefield and can't be sacrificed. Even if it's not specifically sacrificed, part of the cost of activating the Cane is making it inaccessible to sacrifice.
May 9, 2022 2:55 a.m.