Crack Fetchland, play Brainstorm in Response?

[Everrid1234]

Hi,

just 1 question: Can i crack my fetchland and play a Brainstorm in response to its activated ability so that the library is shuffled after the BS resolved?

Greeting and thanks in advance,

Everrid

[MadManiac21]

Yes; or better yet, play the brainstorm, and after it resolves consider cracking the fetch.

You don't want to be forced into losing cards you might not want to.

[jro]

Probably some clarification is in order, since it's not entirely clear what you're asking.  The correct way to do this is as follows:

1) Announce the fetchland ability, pay its costs, and explicitly state you aren't passing priority.
2) Announce Brainstorm, pay its costs, etc.  Pass priority.
3) Assuming the opponent does nothing, resolve Brainstorm (putting some cards on top of your library).
4) Assuming the opponent does nothing, resolve the fetchland ability (thereby shuffling your library).

This means you will not have the fetched land in play while announcing Brainstorm, so you can't use it to pay Brainstorm's mana cost.  What players will sometimes try to do is get a land, cast brainstorm using it, resolve brainstorm, then shuffle.  That you can't do.

[Everrid1234]

Thanks to both of you! This is the way I want to play it.
I just did it a few times this way because the game situation was relatively even and a Brainstorm being casted while an uncracked fetchland is in play would maybe have brought my opponent to the idea to Stifle the Fetchland.

[ChemEng]

This line of play is used until you eat a Daze that you could have otherwise avoided.

And that line of play does not avoid Stifle at all.

The fetchland search is still on the stack when you cast Brainstorm. That means they can still Stifle it once you pass priority.

[Wagner]

While playing against Stacks, that play cost me a tournament game. He used his Wasteland to destroy my fetchland in response to my Brainstorm, that way I could no shuffle any dead cards I had in my hand.

The correct play for me would have been to Fetch and Brainstorm in response, that way I would have been sure to shuffle those cards back in the deck.

So yes, that play may come relevant once in a while.

[Phele]

While playing against Stacks, that play cost me a tournament game. He used his Wasteland to destroy my fetchland in response to my Brainstorm, that way I could no shuffle any dead cards I had in my hand.

The correct play for me would have been to Fetch and Brainstorm in response, that way I would have been sure to shuffle those cards back in the deck.

So yes, that play may come relevant once in a while.

But sometimes I wouldn't like to shuffle after brainstorming, as my hand suddenly got a godlike combination that needs to draw one of those cards after brainstorming. This situation is probably much rarer, but in that case that play might be relvant in a not wanted direction

[Clariax]

This is the rules forum, the question has been answered, please take the strategy discussions elsewhere


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