another morph question

[marcus]

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if i go to morph my blistering firecat can my opponent play
stifle on that ability. I said no because in the rule insert for
onslaught under the morph spot it says:Turning a card face up
does not use the stack,so your opponent can not respond. When
you want to turn over a face down creature, no one can stop you.
I understand that cards overrule the rules, but since morph
doesn't use the stack i don't see how you can stifle that
ability, and if i am wrong and you can stifle the ability what
happens to the creature.

 

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On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:37:54 GMT, Marcus <jojothebadclown@hotmail.com> wrote:
>if i go to morph my blistering firecat can my opponent play
>stifle on that ability.

No. (I am assuming here that you refer to turning the Firecat in play face-up,
rather than to actually using the Morph ability and playing the Firecat +spell+
face-down, since "morph" doesn't have any meaning in Magic as a verb.) Turning
a face-down creature face-up is a special action and doesn't use the stack. It
is not a triggered or activated ability, either, so would not be a legal target
for Stifle even if somehow it did use the stack.

>I said no because in the rule insert for
>onslaught under the morph spot it says:Turning a card face up
>does not use the stack,so your opponent can not respond. When
>you want to turn over a face down creature, no one can stop you.

Right.

>I understand that cards overrule the rules, but since morph
>doesn't use the stack i don't see how you can stifle that
>ability, and if i am wrong and you can stifle the ability what
>happens to the creature.

Stifle doesn't say anything that would cause it to be able to target something
that doesn't use the stack (and, as you note, it also doesn't provide any time
at which you could even try to take this action), nor does it say anything that
would cause it to be able to target something other than a triggered or
activated ability.

Dave
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