Does Time Reversal kill Psychosis Crawler?
Asked by Hodou 13 years ago
Your hand does get shuffled into the library, but you have cards in your hand before and after the spell resolves. Does Psychosis Crawler's toughness ever hit zero?
theemptyquiver says... #2
Interesting.
One more reason to love the complexity of the game.
oulani says... Accepted answer #1
Nope.
From the comprehensive rules:
420.4. Unlike triggered abilities, state-based effects pay no attention to what happens during the resolution of a spell or ability.
Example: A player controls a creature with the ability This creatures power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your hand and plays a spell whose effect is Discard your hand, then draw seven cards. The creature will temporarily have toughness 0 in the middle of the spells resolution but will be back up to toughness 7 when the spell finishes resolving. Thus the creature will survive when state-based effects are checked. In contrast, an ability that triggers when the player has no cards in hand goes on the stack after the spell resolves, because its trigger event happened during resolution.
February 15, 2011 11:35 a.m.