In magic the gathering tapping and effects?

Question

Ok my question is based around this new rule mtg had made that my friend found. Now he never showed us where it was in magic and we never bothered to go looking for it, but now were getting annoyed cause some of his decks are destroying us cause of this new rule.

He said the new rule is: if a card's tap or pay mana ability would be activated and some one responded by removing the card from the game. The ability still goes through.

now for the example: if he was using intrepid hero and tapping it to blow up one of my creatures and i responded by Boomeranging it back to his hand, but intrepid hero's effect still goes through

I just wanted to know if this is an actual rule and where I could find it in magic or if it isn't a real rule?

Answer 1

you should email the mtg judge. he is extremely useful.

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Answer 2

402.5. An ability isn’t a spell and therefore can’t be countered by anything that counters only spells.

Abilities can be countered by effects that specifically counter abilities, as well as by the rules....

402.6. Once activated or triggered, an ability exists independently of its source as an ability on the

stack. Destruction or removal of the source after that time won’t affect the ability...

so you need to send his guy to his hand before he uses that ability.....

Answer 3

I hate to break it to you, but I do believe he is right.

Think of it this way: I am throwing a grenade at you. I’ve already pulled off the safety pin. This is like tapping the hero. Now, you shoot me dead in response. I would die, but because I died doesn’t mean that the primed grenade won’t explode and kill you anyway.

You can’t respond to something being tapped to activate the effect by bouncing the effect source. You can stack it any way you like, but by the time you play the spell, and the spell resolves, it is already too late. The effect had been set in motion, and it will carry through.

In your case, I believe that you should have bounced your own destroyed creature, if it was worth saving at all. In this case, you can do so, because damage gets resolved as a state-based effect. Therefore, you can respond by bouncing it, for you can play the boomerang any time you want. It just so happens that you can’t use its effect to remove a source of an effect TO STOP THAT EFFECT.

Hope that helped!

Answer 4

I do not believe that this is an actual rule.  If it were, it would make *a lot* of cards absolutely useless.

Answer 5

hey man i love magic the gathering and i think the effect does not go through because you sent back to his hand.  and if you ever want to mail me about stuff just send cause im always willing to help a fellow magic player.