For everyone who wants to get a little deeper into the rules: The MTG Judge Academy let's you go through all kind of rules/judging related material in form of video courses. You can do all courses up to the level 1 judge exam for free. You also get a little badge and title of "rules advisor"... don't know if anyone cares for that though

Pleeeeeaaaase make more magic rules videos! I love seeing interesting rules discussions!

Whenever i teach ppl how to play Magic, i try to seperate the creature from the ability it just created, so when its on the stack they understand that the ability and the creature are not the same, that its no the creature thats on the stack. I also explain that even if you kill the "man with a bow, the arrow will stil arrive"

No one will ever have priority or place anything on the stack during the untap step. Abilities triggered during Untap are pushed to the upkeep and placed onto the stack at the beginning of the upkeep. See CR 502.4

This video was a good introductory explanation of the stack, how about a follow up video detailing more in depth interactions with the stack, such as allowing certain spells to resolve from the stack and then adding new spells to the existing stack, for tactical advantage. Possibly explaining how holding priority can be used to benefit you and when you should employ this tactic, and perhaps what your options might be after someone has added multiple effects to a stack while maintaining priority, finally passing priority allowing their opponents a chance to interact with the existing stack.

I think it is important to note that holding priority doesn't allow you to actually resolve any abilities it just lets you put multiple things on the stack before passing priority. Also, when resolving a stack with multiple spells or abilities, priority technically should get passed around the table on each of them before it resolves. I've seen some new players think that once a full round of priority passes on the top spell in the stack the whole stack must then resolve with no further responses.

I definitely think these videos are very useful :) I remember the days of instants and interrupts, in hindsight they were always confusing. And I remember the stack being introduced and thinking 'why are they making it all so much more complicated?' lol. Something about the way it was described in the rules inserts always made it seem so much more complicated than necessary - but as you suggest, just remembering the two basic principles of things going on the stack in priority order and resolving 'first in, last out' covers the majority of situations pretty well. Another one that I see people having trouble with from time to time is delayed triggers (I think that's the correct term) - the specific example I'm thinking of is Liesa Forgotten Archangel, who has a triggered ability that says "Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, return that card to your hand at the beginning of the next end step." People sometimes think that removing Liesa after this ability has triggered will stop the ability, because the ability doesn't resolve until later - but that's just it, the ability has already triggered so they would need to stifle it (or remove Liesa before it triggers, by, for example, responding to a boardwipe on the stack by removing her at instant speed, so she's not there to trigger when the wipe resolves) (because the creatures sit in the graveyard between the trigger and the resolution, graveyard removal during that interval would also disrupt the ability).

This one's a bit niche but a common one I've seen misunderstood: Mizzix's Mastery triggers Magecraft only once per spell, not twice (same for cards like Isochron Scepter). Magecraft triggers when you cast a spell or copy a spell. Mizzix's mastery copies cards, and then you can cast those cards (as spells)

This makes me remember when I was learning the game in 2003. The stack instantly (haha) made sense to me and I was hooked right away. I was told stories of the dark times before the stack was invented

I really enjoyed how you broke down priority. The way you explained it made it super clear how to utilize it correctly. Thank you.

These rules videos are helping me out a ton! Thanks for the great content!

Really good video! The explanations were really clear and thorough. Keep up the good work!!

One thing you may have wanted to mention in this video is that priority passes in turn order. So if turn player 1 casts a spell, player 4 has to wait for the other 2 opponents to pass priority before countering that spell. This is most relevant I think when there is a board wipe on the stack and a player has a sac outlet, and another player after them in turn order plans on countering the board wipe. Awesome video man, really clear on stuff, I'm sure this helped a lot of players.

Love these videos , thank you! In the future, it would help if you could reference the specific rule (like the rule number) so that if an argument ensues in a pod, they can reference the ruling easily.

This has given me ALOT to think about, defiantly helping me understand the game better. Thank you for these videos looking forward to more

Great Video! What I have learned recently, in regard to the stack and priority, is that anytime a spell/ability resolves from the stack the ACTIVE play receives priority. Say Amy moves to her end step and during her end step Nick plays a wondering emperor. If wondering emperor resolves Nick does not have priority to activate even though wondering emperors abilities are at flash speed (currently). Amy can play her vanishing verse before nick has a chance to activate the planes walker ability. Once Amy's verse is on the stack Nick can activate the emperor. So say you have 7 things on the stack. Well every time something resolves ACTIVE player receives priority which would be at least 7 times.

Underrated video. Probably because it is a bit heady but well put together. All new players should be watching videos like these.

Brilliant video, thanks Demo! Suggestion for another one: explanation of layers :)

Again, by far my favorite type of video on your channel and so important to the magic community. A lot of what you presented is learned via countless games, but a lot of what is learned at LGS/kitchen table games is misleading. Thank you for clarifying many misconceptions and teaching so concisely. By and afar best educational last 2 videos I've seen on YT. Maybe you could go over turn order, and how priority passes to players as spells resolve on the stack in the future, such as when people respond to the stack after a spell resolves from the top etc.

I also played before the stack m8. Recently got back into the game in 2021 and this vid helped solidify some better understandings of the game. Thanks!

Being a new player and getting into the game, my 'instructor' is telling me all these contradicting rules. I've got some transferable understanding (Legends of the Five Rings, the old cards) but these videos you've done have shed more light on some of the confusing rulings I've had tried to be explained to me.

Good vid. You always know how to explain things in an eloquent and understandable way😃

Super hyped to see @casuallycompetitiveMTG get footage featured! They were the first people to get me to enjoy watching gameplay videos!

Basically, back in the day, cards resolved last in first out and according to their speeds. So it made sense to talk about “the stack” before it was an actual rule. I mean, the rule was already kinda there and just wasn’t technically called “the stack” but we used to refer to “the stack” to sort of picture the “last in first out” order of the cards resolving. The term was invented by the players and became prevalent and so it was eventually added to the official words of the game. Not long after I started playing (1994?) people started using “the stack” in games. You would just picture the cards all going in a stack then resolving in the reverse order of their casting. It wasn’t that much different really.. well,.. there were some strange things and not all effects used the stack (still the case) and there were complexities around “batches” etc. But the stack being “added to the rules” was really just mtg acknowledging what people were already doing in practice.. kinda the same way they write terms like “mill” into the game now. The stack was a useful way to think about the rules before it was officially referenced in the rules cannon of mtg.

One important interaction with the stack that I think was missed - if you respond and remove the target(s) of a spell or ability, the spell/ability will be countered if it no longer has any legal targets. For example, if an opponent plays expedite and then you kill the target creature, when Expedite goes to resolve, it will see that it has no legal target and will fail to resolve at all, meaning they will not draw a card.

Similar to the special timing rules, it is worth mentioning that Mesmeric Orb triggers never actually go on the stack during the untap step, similar to what happens with Nekusar + Days undoing. Also do timing for Cascade/ Suspend. Rule of law + suspending a card, Flash speed + suspending a card.

A little more backstory on what Demo was stalking about for the times before the Stack. It was a system called the Batch and yes, it was very weird and complicated. Batches resolved all at once and Interrupts were 'faster' because they could interrupt a batch of other things like Instants and Sorceries trying to resolve in their current Batch.

Great video! Priority has always confused me and you explained it very well.

“Time Stop”/“Remove from stack” abilities are technically NOT counter-spells. They can remove abilities/spells from the stack that “can not be countered” the effect is similar to a counter spell but not actually counter spells. (“Delay” counters a spell, “Ertai’s Meddling” does not as such “Ertai’s Meddling” can remove “Supreme Verdict” from the stack)

Thanks so much for making this video and showing the different examples

I promise I’m trying to help here. NOBODY can get priority during the untap step. Abilities cannot be put onto the stack. You simply untap, if there is a winter orb effect in play you would also elect your untap choices, but ANY ability that would be put into the stack in the untap step gets pushed back into the beginning of the upkeep. See Rule 116.3a

Nice video! Alot i didnt know, especially concerning priority!

A couple notes, when Demo was talking about players getting Priority during the Upkeep, he is correct there but technically nothing goes into the Stack before then. During the Untap Step, the first thing that happens is that things phase in andnthinga with Phasing phase out, then after that the game swaps between Night and Day if the requirements are met for it to swap, and then finally things Untap. If any of those things happening trigger an ability, then those set up a trigger that then enters the Stack during the Upkeep. Just like with all triggered abilities, they happen in APNAP order and multiple Triggered abilities from a single player enter the Stack in the order that player decides.

Abilities of creatures: turn diagonal. Attack: horizontal. Summon sickness: 1/2 way back from the front line. Stack: middle level of the field. Thanks for the video! Arcmage

I'm 99% sure that it was me who was confused with the swords to plowshares thing... It's always great to learn more about the rules!

I had to run time stop effects for some time because there were two players in my meta who ran obliterate and would hold it up specifically until they could essentially restart the game and try and make people quit. Most people would concede because they would usually cast it 2 hours in and no one wanted to keep going.

Love these vids, even as a long time player. One thing that has always tripped me up is State Based Actions. Are you able to clarify that bc I know it's one of those areas that a lot of people are confused. Especially if there are any relation to the stack or effects w/ creatures leaving the field, etc. Thanks a million!

Hi love these rules videos! 2 things; One thing that has confused me in the past. Can i pass priority to see if anyone else does something and if they don't can i then put something else on the stack, like at instant speed or at the end of turn before the turn ends or the stack resolves. Second thing; i know this now because i have a counters deck. But that +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counter cancel each other out - meaning both disappears. For example putting 3 x +1/+1 counters and then 4 x -1/-1 counter are placed on the same creature that means only 1 x -1/-1 counter are left. This is relevant to proliferate for example. Long time follower, love your content /Jim LL

L1 here. You can never get priority during Untap. If a triggered ability would occur during the Untap step, it waits for the beginning of the Upkeep to go onto the stack. If a triggered ability happens during Cleanup, there will be another Cleanup step after that one. I’d love to see you do a “Rules you’re getting wrong - Intervening If triggers.” They’re relatively new in Magic but super important that people know how they work. They’re triggered abilities that if their initial condition is not met they don’t even trigger, but a lot of people don’t know that and I see people try to interact with a trigger to fulfill that condition while the trigger is on the stack so it will resolve properly. Example: “At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control two or more creatures, do X,” will not even trigger if you do not have two or more creatures at the beginning of your upkeep, and you have to maintain the condition throughout the resolution of the triggered ability.

Thanks for the video! Good stuff!

a really good ruling to know about 20:00 is that saying you're moving to combat is actually not exactly passing priority to go to beginning of combat phase. If you announce going to combat you are already considered to be in beginning of combat phase (before declare attackers) and if someone stops you and says "WAIT I want to respond" you will not still be in your main phase. This is a tournament ruling for ease of judging when someone is trying to interrupt. The exception to this rule is when there is a "At the beginning of combat" trigger, then again the person trying to respond is always the correct one in that they can stop you on main phase to stop that trigger from happening.

My biggun is people attempting to counterspell ETB effects after they're targeted. Pro tip: Don't ever announce your ETB effect targets until everyone agrees that the permanent has resolved and is actually on the battlefield. Nothing better than dropping a reclamation sage, saying "and I pass priority", acknowledging that everyone else passes, targeting a blue player's enchantment, and saying "you can't counterspell the ETB effect" when they try to save their leyline of anticipation. Same goes for spells that say "CHOOSE" instead of "target". Druid of purification says "each player chooses", so when the artifact player attempted to sacrifice their stuff to krark-clan Ironworks in response to having 3 players choose permanents on their board to destroy, they were shocked to find out that the ability had already resolved - which they had acknowledged by participating in the Druid of Purification's ability. Make sure to remember this for cards like Sculpted Sunburst and other white board wipes that let you save a creature.

I loved this video! Thank you so much!

Hey man, love your vids and thanks for doing this series! I just wanted to offer a small correction, there are actually no instances of using the stack during the untap step. Any triggers that occur during the untap step will wait until a player would receive priority to go on the stack, and will therefore hit the stack during upkeep. They basically trigger at the same time as upkeep triggers and can be ordered by their controller. Comprehensive rule 502.4.

At 11:51, "just read Time Stop, " Time Stop has one of the coolest bling versions out there. The tenth edition foil. In some core sets, foil cards got special treatments. Eighth and ninth got black-bordered versions, and tenth had no reminder text. So this leads to the most powerful three words sitting alone in the middle of the card in MtG: End the turn.

When you have a game as complicated as magic these videos are always needed

niv mizzet paruun is rly hard with storm and stacks, but my favorit comb is with this: frantic search and narsets reversal with paruun in play and thousend year storm (or any other enchantment that copies spells), when you cast them without giving up priority, you have the storm trigger, the draw trigger and after drawing the dmg trigger from niv mizzet. and when your finished, you got 6 mana back and can do this shit again, and with magecraft, it got sooo much more harder. since i use this cmd, i use a stack tocken in the middle of the table, so that everyone can follow and made some proxis for all the trigger itself. stacks is rly much fun (but mostly only for you, when you do it like this ;) ) but so i have one question, when i have these in this situation on the stack and i start to resolve the trigger and spells on the stack, can i even react on a spell or trigger thats coming from myself, like put a high tide on the stack befor my last piece is resolved?

I use a Satin Tower as my deck box, and I use the top of my deck box as a platform to place spells on the stack before they resolve.

The thing that really gets me is how much communication is involved for all these things. Take Hold Priority.... you have to SAY THAT PHRASE IMMEDIATELY after declaring your activation/trigger/whatever, otherwise it would be understood that opponents now have priority

I love MTG's complexity. I wish my love for the inner workings and mechanics of Magic translated to me understanding pharmacy tech information/laws/drugs/etc.

What is cool about The Stack and FILO is they are both algorithmic ways in Computer Science to manage data. WoTC basically adopted this algorithm when rewriting the rules to MtG.

I always struggled to understand the stack when I was first playing, but then I watched the first Friday Nights episode where he says "first in last out" and that simple golden rule cleared up so much for me.

Newer player like me really finds this helpful. My commander group is full of new players as well, that I brought in. So naturally when a ruling comes up I'm usually the one who tries to resolve it lol.

In regards to the Inspired mechanic, it doesn't actually cause priority to pass around during the untap step. Instead the triggered ability is put on the stack at the beginning of the upkeep.

I know I'm late to the party here, and I don't know if it's been brought up yet, but: when you decide to change phase, if an opponent uses the opportunity to put something on the stack; the phase does not change when the stack empties, and the active player gets priority again.

To confirm for the Phyrexian Arena example at 13:41 in which a player has 1 life left and it is their upkeep, you stated that it would kill you and you can't do anything about this. We can't stop it from getting on the stack, but we can respond by countering it or gaining life. Stay alive!

Hey man. Great content! I’m a casual player, and I have a question on Jinnie Fay & a card like Chandra, Flamecaller. Jinnie’s card says that if a token would ETB, you may INSTEAD create a 3/1 Dog with vigilance, or a 2/2 cat with haste. When I use Chandra’s ability to create 2x 3/1 elementals, Jinnie Fay’s ability triggers. When it does, I opt to instead make 2x 2/2 cats. Will these cats be sacrificed at the end of the turn (because of Chandra’s +1 ability), or will I get to keep the tokens? I’m sure there are other interactions with this card that I haven’t thought yet, so please let me know what you think. Thanks, man!

Please make more I love these videos! 🎉❤

One thing that a lot of people got confused with and I did too was that people didn't understand that taping/sacrificing was a cost and done automatically. As back in the day we would have, "I tap my prodigal sorcerer to do 1 damage to your fyndhorn elf, well they would go, "I use icy manipulator to tap your prodigcal socerer before he can do that." and just assumed it worked.

My favorite ever ruling that I stopped a potential win with was the fact that doubling season doesn't double the loyalty counters earned from loyalty abilities which someone using oath of teferi and teferi time bender to get his ult immediately after playing him

I've been playing as long as you, so I'm not really learning anything in these videos. However, you do a really good job of explaining many common game play mistakes that many people make without realizing. Keep helping people play tighter Magic!

Can’t wait for the layers vid. Opalescence + Humility time!

That's so interesting that MTG did not have the stack in the past. The stack and first in/last out and resovling (called returning in programming) are programming concepts, so they make a lot of sense to me. I wish we had an actual physical representation of the stack. I've stacked cards too, when showing people how the stack works. I wish we did something like that all the time.

Summery Desmissal also counters spells that has "this spell cant be coutnerd"

Love your work. Great video.

Ok rules question here. Ok so say you have Witchbane Orb out so you have Hexproof a Pithing Needle out naming Lethal Vapors and a Lethal Vapors out with Endless Whispers also a Sundial of the Infinite. So what you would do with that board state is cast Phage from your hand Lethal Vapors would kill her then you use Sundial ending the turn skipping Endless Whispers trigger till the opponents End Phase which once there Endless Whispers triggers giving them Phage then Lethal Vapors killing Phage but Phages "You lose the game if this card entered your battlefield and was not cast from hand" trigger goes onto the stack at the same time so APNAP order Vapors would resolve first Phage would go into your grave since you own the card, HOWEVER that introduces a new trigger onto the stack Endless Whispers which gave Phage the trigger of "When this creature is put into a graveyard from play, chose target opponent. That player puts this creature card from that graveyard into play under his or her control at the beginning of the end step" So if that trigger goes onto the stack before Phages lose the game trigger resolves then the question is does the delayed trigger resolve? as the first part of the trigger is them picking a opponent Phage goes to at the next end step the delayed part of the trigger is this "That player puts this creature card from that graveyard into play under his or her control at the beginning of the end step" Phage won't get exiled or go back to my command zone no as the trigger from the active player will go onto the stack first thanks to APNAP order so if it don't loop she will just be in my grave thanks to Lethal Vapor. There are two questions here "Will another trigger go directly onto the stack while the rest of the triggers started resolving and resolve before the rest?" and "Does the delayed trigger resolve if the first trigger went onto the stack before the rest resolved since the player that loses does not control the trigger?" If it works how i think it works as in it loops and kills everyone else then it is a great game ending combo assuming they can't do anything to win before hand or get rid of my Witchbane Orb which would end up killing me next turn as you know they will target me for it if they destroy that There is actually no rules clarification officially between this interaction

Awesome videos!! As a new player, when does stuff on the stack resolve? When would it be too late for an opponent to counter say a creature being played?

hey can the same ability be put on the stack multiple times? for example, if i have necrotic ooze in play, with mundungu and pili pala in my graveyard, and my opponents casts a spell, can i tap necrotic ooze using mundungu's ability, then untap with pili pala's ability, then tap again using mundungu's ability, so my opponent would need to pay 2 mana and 2 life or their spell is countered? and could i spread it out, like tap once and if they pay then untap and tap again?

@12:45, I think we are talking about two different things here: You can on your turn or on your opponent's turn, ask for priority. That importantly, after the last Main Phase has ended, you have the opportunity to cast flash spells and instants. Which should be before ‘clean up’ / passing the turn. The End Phase can be subdivided into a place that you may have priority or that you want to completely the pass the turn.

Q: When should spells fizzle? I feel between Arena bugs and the convoluted nature of what it even means to fizzle, I'm not sure what to make of a spell having several targets and some are illegal when the spell resolves finally. One target is a clear case but this applies more to cards like Opus and the like. I wish I had some specific unusual examples noted.

It's important to also mention that as cursed mirror does not target a creature, it can copy even creatures with hexproof or shroud.

oh and heres a good one for people "cannot be countered" there's a loop hole around that because what it really means is it hexproof to stuff that say "counter target ***" so if you get a counterspell that doesn't say "counter target ***" it can counter it like "time stop" (and "Summary dismisal" and "Mind Trap") effects those are exiling all the spells from the stack it's not countering the spells on the the stack so the "cannot be counters" then cards like "Ashiok's Erasure" and "Spell queller" they said "exile target spell" its the same thing but just one spell (its exiling it from the stack and not countering)

I do want to state after you played your torbrand and it resolves as long as you took no other action during that phase before moving into another priority has to be passed to your oppent to make sure everything is resolved and no other actions are taken at that point he can then swords to plows hares without having anything else on the stack.

This is super helpful!

If you could help on this interaction it would be appreciated, I think I'm resolving it right and I am just using the " first in, last out" rule to do it, but it's so convoluted I'm not sure I'm doing it right, say you start your turn with five tapped lands,and sidisi brood tyrant, mesmeric orb, parallel lives, and path of discovery on the battlefield, ... ( Information you would not know, but Let's say the top five cards your deck are all creatures). I've had this come up in several games, and goldfished it many times to try to figure out how to better learn any interaction and do it at a speed so it isn't so burdensome on my opponents, it's so convoluted and branches off so many times and I'm not sure I'm resolving everything at the proper time, it's a wacky interaction .

I want to add fiery emancipation to a deck of mine. What is a source? Does it include creatures, enchantments, or non-permanent cards?

I started playing back in 97, in high school... from what i remember sorcery = played on your turn, instant = played on any turn, interrupt = only played during the casting of another spell to "interrupt it". And mana source = usable at any time to pay for a spell... From what i remember, you couldnt cast an instant while another spell was being cast, only interrupts could.

I was going to use Infernal Tribute as an example if you didn’t. 😂 I use it in my Aphemia deck as a way to sacrifice Treacherous Blessings or Trial of Ambition or to immediately dredge with Stinkweed Imp, etc. I had to read the errata to see if I could sacrifice the Zombie tokens. Nope, “non-token permanent.”

Hi Demo, new to your channel; thank you for this video! I am curious if you can talk about cards that break the stack, such as Garth One-eye's ability to cast sorcery spells at instant speed (refer to MTGO and use his ability on another turn to cast a Shivan Dragon). Thanks!

Great video. I got 2 things: 1) how would cards like Clever Impersonator and a phyrexian Metamorph interact with Astral Dragon tokens if they are copying a non-creature permanent? 2) I just think it’s neat how if someone responds to you leaving your 2nd main phase, it will kick you back into your main phase once the stack clears

Just to be a little more exact, changing phase does not pass priority per se. A phase or step in which players receive priority ends when the stack is empty and all players pass in succession. So, you do not so much as change phase, but rather, you do nothing and if everyone passes without doing anything, the game progresses.

Oooh i do have something usefull to add. If u have a card with cycling you can create your own stack on other peoples turns allowing you to then spot removal without them doing anything

When you start to resolve what is on the stack, can you start adding new effect before all the stack is resolved?

Some card design that hasn't been explored yet but would be neat is effects that manipulate the stack directly­... Even if it's just a silver bordered card. Like imagine a spell that's like "1B instant: choose two spells or abilities and exchange their place on the stack." Could be a really fun way to mess with people's game plans without using counters.

Bit of a pedantic nitpick: it's not that moving through phases passes priority, it's that how priority works is first, if a spell was just cast or an ability was just activated, the player that did that gains priority, otherwise it's the active player that gets priority. That player may cast spells, activate abilities, or any other game action that is legal at that time. If they do, they pay whatever costs and move relevant objects to the stack, and you start from the top, with that player getting priority. If they choose not to do anything, they pass priority to the next player in turn order. Then, if every player in sequence passes priority, you resolve the top-most object from the stack, then go back to the top, this time with the active player getting priority. If there is no object to resolve, you immediately proceed to the next phase, which starts with (any relevant turn actions happening, then triggers going on the stack, and then) the active player getting priority (with the exception of the untap step and the cleanup step, which no one gets priority during). Notably, as the active player, if you pass priority you can't "react" to the other players agreeing to pass to the next phase. There isn't a "moving out of the main phase" priority pass, the priority pass initiated moving out of the phase; you don't get to response-check your opponents and still do things in your main phase. If they DO cast things in your main phase, you DO get another round of priority once the stack is empty and you can once again play lands or cast sorcery-speed spells, but if you all pass in sequence the next time you get priority will be the enter combat step or the end step. "Holding priority" is actually just choosing to go through this process in a more explicit manner; it's less an action you take and more NOT taking an action: most players and even most MTG clients (I know arena does, I think mtgo does as well) assume that immediately following you putting an ability on the stack, you would like to pass priority; rarely is it optimal for you to do things in response to your own spells and abilities when you could allow them to happen one at a time and change course if an opponent throws a wrench in your plan. SOMETIMES however, especially for "copy target spell" type effects, you don't want that object to resolve, you want to do things to it while it's still on the stack. In this case you communicate that you would like to forego the usual shortcut of automatically passing priority whenever you put a spell on the stack, which the community-agreed upon term for is "hold priority". On MTGA I believe the default key for this is holding Control as you perform the action that would normally result in you passing priority afterwards, and is referred to as "full control mode". Haven't done much MTGO myself so I wouldn't be able to tell you there.

You should do a video focusing on state based effects and hope they play into priority and the stack.

U dan also deal with something on the stack if it has targets. Remove all of its targets n the spell will fizzle when it tries to resolve cuz it is no longer a legal effect. Ur last point about not being able to respond to nothing actually was new info to me so thx. I'm glad I stuck around til the end. So if I understand correctly, drawing a card in the draw step can trigger abilities n replacement effects but since it doesn't actually use the stack itself, no one can respond to it n instead must wait til after all the cards r drawn when those triggered abilities would then be put on the stack n then they could respond or if no triggers happened then when I go to end the draw step n move to my main phase they would be given a brief moment of priority. Correct?

Thank you for the video! I’ve only been playing for about 6 months and the information has been extremely helpful! I had one specific scenario question if you don’t mind; It was my turn and I was attempting to cast an enchantment (I think it was Mind’s Dilation?) and I knew my opponent had a counter spell. I attempted to hold priority and play Krosan’s Grip and keep it on the stack so that the Mind’s Dilation couldn’t be countered due to Split Second. My friend who has been playing much longer than I have told me it wouldn’t matter because of “how priority worked.” Just for learning’s sake how would that situation go? Thanks for the videos!!

There is triggered ability that happens when permanent untaps, so you can interact before upkeep of they are in play

I suppose that emphasizing when you hold priority it just means you can cast instant speed spells and activate abilities onto the Stack, but every player is going to have a chance of responding to the Stack before the resolution of any spell.

Question about Shield Broker. Lets say I play shield broker, give an enemy creature a shield token and gain control of it. Then while I have control of the creature, I attempt to put an additional shield counter on it via Boon of Safety. If my opponent deals damage to the creature to break it's shield counter before Boon of Safety resolves, who has control of the creature after Boon of Safety resolves?

How does lingering effects work, or rather, is there any way to disrupt them. Like with Necropotence, as a Yugioh player, when continuos spells get destroyed, the effects won't resolve. Does things like Necropotence have similar ways of disrupting them after they have paid the cost for the effect, or does it have to be countered when it hits the field?

I would love a breakdown of radiant preformer with magecraft and spells

You deserve WAY more subscribers

I would like a video topic of explaining the sundial usage. I keep seeing everyone use it wrong. People misread things like at the beginning of the next end step or the end of the next turn, and try to save it with Sundial, all it does (in most cases) is save whatever until the end of the very next turn.

Dalakos, Crafter of Wonders with Colossus Hammer maybe an Archetype of Imagination or 2. I dunno for sure or if you covered it already. I usually favor the detrimental effects in weird ones.

Just to clarify your last point, holding priority means your opponent doesnt get to react to the casting of spells and activating of abilities HOWEVER that does not mean you can "protect" them. It just means you can continue to ADD to the stack, you must pass priority to allow anything to resolve meaning your opponents get to respond after you're done adding (and even in between abilities/spells RESOLVING) Priority essentially just means "If we both want to add to the stack I get to add to it first".

"Stack is an imaginary place". So good. Koma is good to understand the stack

If a spell on the stack is targeting something, another way to "counter" that spell is simply removing it's target. If the spell doesn't have the necessary targets, it can't resolve and is removed from the stack by state based actions. This is relevant for spells like hex, which needs exactly six targets; you can simply get rid of one to save the other five, give one protection, hexproof, shroud, blink it, etc. Something else you could talk about in terms of abilities is replacement effects like doubling season, and how they interact with other effects.