If you have a creature in your deck such as {Emrakul, the Aeons Torn} and it gets milled into your graveyard, when exactly does his ability kick in? After all the cards have been milled or as it happens?
How are the cards being milled? Something like {mind sculpt}?
That works haha
Could this theoretical stop an effect that mills your entire library? Or do you lose before the ability is activated?
Keep in mind you don't lose until you are required to draw a card when you can't. So you can have no cards in your library and be just fine. But Emrakul's ability will not go onto the stack until the entire {Mind Sculpt} ability goes through.
So that's a yes as long as I don't have to draw?
Quote from: Taysby on March 18, 2014, 11:23:29 PM
When something like {mind sculpt} says to put the top 7 into your graveyard, you reveal them all, put them in the order you want, then they all simultaneously hit the graveyard, and then Emmys ability would trigger to shuffle your gy back in.
is this true about the order being however you want? they dont get milled in the order they are in your library?
Quote from: easonej on March 18, 2014, 11:03:52 PM
If you have a creature in your deck such as {Emrakul, the Aeons Torn} and it gets milled into your graveyard, when exactly does his ability kick in? After all the cards have been milled or as it happens?
The mill affect finishes, then all put into graveyard effects are placed onto the stack in ap-nap order. If you get milled 10 and Emeakul is the third one milled, you would mill the other 7 cards before placing his trigger onto the stack. If you mill a second card that has an enter the GY trigger, you can place them on the stack in any order.
Beware {tormod's crypt}
Also, note here that the Eldrazi Titans have a different ability than some other creatures, like Blightsteel Colossus or Worldspine Wurm. Emmanuel has a triggered ability that will shuffle the entire graveyard in to the library after the milling is done. The Replacement Effect on Blightsteel, Worldspine, Progenitus, etc, will actually shuffle the card back in to the library while the mill effect is still happening, and the card never actually hits the graveyard.