my roomate is having trouble understanding the way things go on the stack.

he tries to argue that he should be able to foiled in response to a fastball special played by a teamed up xmen character and a brother hood character , thus making the payment illegal.

i know i'm right that you cannot do anything in the game to cause something to be unpaid for.

however a response may prevnt a resolution from being legal, correct?


such as :

my gambit has been stunned.

my opponent tries to finishing move my gambit.

i respond with children of the atom, thus making gambit no longer stunned, so when finishing move becomes active on the chain it no longer has a legal target, causing it to fizzle.

or :

gambit is stunned, and leaves cyclops unprotected on my support row.

my opponent tries to us green goblin to stun cyclops.

i respond to this with a children of the atom to recover gambit, causing cyclops to become protected, before goblin's power becomes active on the chain, again resulting in a fizzle.


he doesn't see the difference either between those examples and this :

i have a marvel teamup in play, targetting spider friends and xmen.

i control madam web, and longshot.

it is the combat phase and my initiative.

i declare that i will activate longshot,triggering madam webs life gain, then activate madam web.

my opponent wants to resopnd with a foiled to prevent my life gain.

my argument here is that at the time that longshot activated, he was a spider friend, and therefore it is the life gaining portion of madam webs game text on the chain, not the spider friend activating, as that was the trigger, not the resolution, nothing in my opponents action is removing that life gain from the chain.

he thinks this is trying to have it both ways, but it truly isn't, it is just not the same thing as goblin, or finishing move.

any words here would be thanked!

Wrong forum bro. Try the Rules Forum.

yeah, i figured that out, but it won't let me disable this posting..:(