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Yes you can play spells after you draw your card in the draw step.
Can you play an instant during opponent’s draw step?
No player receives priority during the untap step, meaning that no cards or abilities can be played at that time. During the upkeep and draw steps, however, players can cast instants and activate abilities as normal.
Can you cast during draw step?
Yes – in fact, there’s no window in the Draw Step that you can cast something before they draw, only after. If you want to get them before they draw, it must be in the upkeep step.
Can you respond to someone’s draw step?
Yes. The turn based action of drawing happens first before anyone can do anything during the draw step, but the trigger from the Mine can be responded to.
Can you play a card before you draw MTG?
If you are asking whether or not you can cast a spell before you draw a card in the draw step of a given turn, then yes. You are able to cast instants or activate abilities during your own upkeep.
Can you play instants during opponent’s turn?
Yes, you can play an instant any time you have priority, which happens after each spell cast or action taken, barring any effects that prevent you from playing an instant.
Can you cast instants during combat?
Instants are spells that can be cast at any time, even during your opponent’s turn or during combat. Like sorceries, instants have a one-time effect, and then you put them into your graveyard.
Can you respond to upkeep triggers?
The only thing you can do is respond to the trigger after it goes on the stack, but before it resolves with a Stifle or something.
Who stacks upkeep triggers?
When triggers from multiple players would be put on the stack at once, they are placed in Active Player/Non-Active Player (APNAP) order. His Thopter Assembly’s trigger will go on the stack first, followed by all triggers you control in any order you choose. As the NAP, your triggers will resolve first.
Is upkeep before or after draw?
Untap, upkeep, then draw is indeed the order. Note that players do not receive priority to cast spells or activate abilities during the untap step.
Do you get priority on draw step?
Assuming no triggers are involved: You’ll gain priority during their upkeep, when they attempt to move into their draw step. And you’ll gain priority during their draw step, when they attempt to move into their main phase. No one gets priority during the draw step before their draw.
Is draw step part of upkeep?
It consists of three steps, in order: Untap step. Upkeep step. Draw step.
Is untap before upkeep?
b. Upkeep Step – This happens directly after untap and is the first time players may take action during a turn. Abilities that trigger at the beginning of upkeep go on the stack, and then players can play instants and abilities.
Is it better to go first or second MTG?
The Advantages of Being on the Play The player who goes first is much more able to take the initiative, taking the game where he or she wants it to go, and forcing the opponent to react. The player who goes second will need to do something quite special in order to take back the initiative.
Does first player draw card MTG?
The game balances first player advantage because the start player does not draw a card at the beginning of his first turn, but the second player does draw a card during his first turn. 103.7a In a two-player game, the player who plays first skips the draw step (see rule 504, “Draw Step”) of his or her first turn.
Do you draw every turn in magic?
See rule 616.1f. 121.2b Some effects say that a player can’t draw more than one card each turn. Such an effect applies to individual card draws. 121.2c If more than one player is instructed to draw cards, the active player performs all of their draws first, then each other player in turn order does the same.
Can you play sorcery during opponents turn?
Not normally, no. A player can only cast a sorcery or permanent spell if the stack is empty during their own main phase. Unless the card has flash or some spell or ability lets you, you cannot cast it during an opponent’s turn. And unless the ability says otherwise, you can activate it any time you have priority.
Can you cycle on opponent’s turn?
You can cycle any time you have priority, including on your opponent’s turn. An ability exists on the stack independently of its source. Removal of the source after that time won’t affect the ability.
Can you play artifacts on opponent’s turn?
Yes, you may.
Can I play an instant after blockers are declared?
To answer the question in your title, yes, each player receives priority and can cast instants after blockers are declared. A blocked creature will deal no damage to the defending player unless it has trample (or some other card-specific ability).
Can you cast spells during combat phase?
You can cast instant spells any time you have priority, including after attackers are declared and before blockers are declared (C.R. 116.1a, 508.2, 116.3d). See also this thread.
Do instants count as combat damage?
No. You can only play sorceries, or enchantments, during your main phase when the stack is empty and you have priority. You cannot (normally) cast any kind of spell other than instants during combat.
Can you play Sorceries during your upkeep?
Yes, you can play instants and abilities during the upkeep. However, the Haze just gives you an additional upkeep step. It does not give you an additional untap step (which is the step that occurs before the upkeep step), so anything that’s tapped during the first upkeep will still be tapped during the second upkeep.
Can you play a creature before upkeep?
Thanks guys. The triggered abilities get put on the stack before anyone can play anything. Once the trigger is on the stack, everyone gets a chance to respond.
Can you cast spells before your upkeep?
Yes, however, in general you can cast instants before a “beginning of your upkeep” triggered ability resolves. You cannot, however, do it before that ability gets triggered and goes on the stack, which is what messes up your plan.
