Priority

Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 388

Speaking of it, what are the steps of passing priority? like during a players main step, if they aren't going to play anything, do you ask or wait for them to move to the combat phase?

thranarama · Joined: 23 Apr 2005 Posts: 161

After someone does or declines to do something when they would have the chance to (during every step of the turn), they then pass priority to their opponent. It's considered acceptable as a shortcut not to announce every change of priority during a turn.

kfcman · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 583

thranarama has it pretty much right
basically during each step and phase, excluding the untap step, the active player recieves priority, meaning that they have the right to play any spells before the non active player. The active player also has priority to play spells after anything is put on the stack.
For example, if it is my main phase i can play a seismis assault and dump my hand full of lands to burn my opponent before he has a chance to play his krosan grip because i have priority. Make sure that you tell someone you are keeping priority in such specific situations.
Also on MTGO you have to hold control while playing a spell or making an action to retain priority.

throughblack · Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

At the beginning and end of each step other than untap step. anytime and activated or triggered ability or spell goes on the stack

Hardtrack · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 234

Batibot23 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

Hardtrack · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 234

After you play something, you get priority again. The default action is that that priority is passed, but if you say so, you can keep priority.

In case of Seismic Assault you could thus dump all your lands, before they can play something, if you say that you keep priority.

If he plays Wheel and Deal in response to his own Dromar's Charm he can do that without passing priority.

If he plays Wheel and Deal after Dromar's Charm resolves, you get priority first.

Basically the active player gets priority first, but if you play something (and thus have priority) you keep it.

Cosmo · Joined: 15 Oct 2005 Posts: 132

as David Earley said in his article:

Batibot23 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 31

So, Trickbind would only counter Mirror Entity's activated Ability once if the controller of the Mirror has already stacked its abilities for n times.

Hardtrack · Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 234

Delicious · Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 388

so after playing a spell, you don't have to give priority over to your opp and you can play another instant spell

Vedrfolner · Joined: 04 Apr 2006 Posts: 868

Yes, but that new spell will be put on the stack on top of the old one. The opponent can respond to both of them, eventually.