Can you sacrifice as an instant?
You can certainly sacrifice a creature any time you have priority. This is the same rule that lets you play instants during combat.
Can you sacrifice a creature in response to sacrificing it?
No, you can’t lock in that creature for sacrifice. If you do respond to Eldrazi Monument and sacrifice a creature, it just means that that particular creature won’t exist when you are told by Eldrazi Monument to “sacrifice a creature”.
Can I sacrifice a creature MTG?
Show activity on this post. You can only sacrifice a creature you control. Sometimes a card tells you to sacrifice a creature or some other permanent. To sacrifice a permanent, you move it from the battlefield to your graveyard.
Can you cast a creature in response to an instant?
You cannot cast anything in “response” to another spell unless the spell you are casting is an instant. Or if you are activating an ability, such as from a Verdant Catacombs for example.
Is sacrificing an instant MTG?
The ability can be activated any time you could play an instant. The sacrifice (the cost) cannot be responded to. You can sacrifice hexmage with a lightning bolt on the stack. You can’t sacrifice it after the lightning bolt has resolved, while the damage is marked on hexmage.
Can you sacrifice a creature you don’t control?
A player can’t sacrifice something that isn’t a permanent, or something that’s a permanent they don’t control. Sacrificing a permanent doesn’t destroy it, so regeneration or other effects that replace destruction can’t affect this action.
Can I sacrifice a creature before it dies?
To fully answer your question, no, you cannot sacrifice a creature after it has been dealt lethal combat damage. You can sacrifice it right before combat damage is dealt, but it will not deal combat damage to the creature it was blocking, nor will the blocked creature deal damage unless it has trample and vice versa.
Can I sacrifice carrion feeder to itself?
You mean something like Carrion Feeder? Since it doesn’t say otherwise, you can sacrifice the Feeder to itself. There’s no rule preventing that. If you couldn’t sacrifice it to itself, it would say something like “Sacrifice another creature…”
Is an instant a permanent?
An instant is not a permanent. See rule 304, “Instants.” 304.1. A player who has priority may cast an instant card from their hand.
How does sacrifice work in MTG?
Sacrificing or saccing is purposely or forcefully removing a permanent from play. This can be due to an effect on the card itself, the effect of another permanent already in play, coming into or leaving play or a spell such as an instant or sorcery. A sacrificed permanent cannot be regenerated.
Does protection protect against sacrifice?
Protection and Sacrifice While protection saves a creature from damage, enchanting, being blocked, or being targeted, protection can’t save a creature from being sacrificed. An opponent chooses a creature to sacrifice, so this isn’t actually a targeted ability.
Can you sacrifice at any time?
You can’t spontaneously sacrifice a permanent. Even if you have a permanent with an ability of the form “whenever a creature dies” or “whenever a creature is sacrificed”, you need to find some means of sacrificing it. There’s no rule forbidding it; there’s simply no rule allowing it.
Can you sacrifice a creature to its own ability?
Yes. The only implicit limit to Sacrifice is that the object being sacrificed must be permanent you control. Since you control the Whisper, Blood Liturgist with the ability you are activating, and since it’s a creature, it can be sacrificed.
Can you use abilities multiple times MTG?
“How many times can I use my creature’s ability? Just once?” I’ve heard that one a lot, especially among newer players; they want to know how many times they can activate a given ability per turn. The answer is pretty simple: As many times as you can pay for it!
Is sacrificing a creature an activated ability?
, Sacrifice a creature: Target player discards a card. Activate only as a sorcery. symbol, which means it can be activated even if it has summoning sickness.
Who controls an aura?
By default, the player who put it onto the battlefield controls it. Control of the Enchanted permanent does not dictate who controls the Aura. 303.4e An Aura’s controller is separate from the enchanted object’s controller or the enchanted player; the two need not be the same.
How does sacrifice a creature work?
Sacrifice a creature: Target player mills cards equal to the sacrificed creature’s power. As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Draw two cards. Enchanted land has “, Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness.”
How do you sacrifice an untapped creature in MTG?
, , Sacrifice a red creature, a green creature, and a white creature: Search your library for a card named Godsire, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Sacrifice an untapped creature: Enchanted creature gets +2/+0 until end of turn.
How do I sacrifice an artifact or creature with defiant salvager?
Sacrifice an artifact or creature: Put a +1/+1 counter on Defiant Salvager. Activate only as a sorcery. As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
What happens when you sacrifice a creature with Devouring Swarm?
Sacrifice a creature: Devouring Swarm gets +1/+1 until end of turn. As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature. Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle. , Sacrifice a creature: You gain life equal to the sacrificed creature’s toughness.