Necrotic ooze and phyrexian devourer

[elmarfud]

Hello everyone

It's me again with another (maybe stupid) question:

Necrotic ooze:

Creature - Ooze 4 / 3
As long as Necrotic Ooze is on the battlefield, it has all activated abilities of all creature cards in all graveyards.


Phyrexian devourer:

Artifact Creature - Construct 1 / 1
When Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.
Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost. If Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.


My question is: can necrotic ooze die when you reveal a card with converted mana cost 7 or greater? Personally, I don't think so since that is a triggered ability and the ooze only gets the activated abilities. Is this correct?

Many thanks!

Elmar fud

[AmbivalentDuck]

Correct.  The triggered ability is not an activated ability and therefore will not be inherited.

[3eowulf]

Wrong. The Ooze wouldn't get the triggered ability, but would get all the activated ability, included the last sentence.

Exile the top card of your library: Put X +1/+1 counters on Phyrexian Devourer, where X is the exiled card's converted mana cost. If Phyrexian Devourer's power is 7 or greater, sacrifice it.

[Daenyth]

It can die, if you allow the ability to resolve. Since exiling is the cost, you see what card it was before the ability resolves and kills it. Use the ability again, and it will stay on the stack, harmless, until after you've presumably killed your opponent via Triskelion's activated ability on the Ooze.

[Tempus]

My question is: can necrotic ooze die when you reveal a card with converted mana cost 7 or greater? Personally, I don't think so since that is a triggered ability and the ooze only gets the activated abilities. Is this correct?

It dies, and does this if you remove a card with cmc 3 or greater, not 7...

[AmbivalentDuck]

Oops, didn't notice that they'd errata-ed the activated ability.

[Harlequin]

It dies when the ability resolves, not when you "reveal the card".  The cost is "Exile the Top card of your library:" and the game allows you to look at the card you used to pay the cost before deciding if you want to pass priority, or if you want to hold onto priory and continue stacking effects. 

The typical ooze combo is Triskellion + Devourer which does work, if you understand the relationship between costs and effects.  You exile 1 card, look at it and say it has CMC = 5.  From there you just stack that effect and reveal another card in response to the "Put 5 +1/+1's on him, then sac him".  This time lets say lets say its CMC=2.  This ability we'll let resolve, so we pass priority and resolve the "put 2 +1/+1's on him, and he survives" now our first  "Put 5 +1/+1's on him, then sac him" activation is the only thing left in the stack.  But we get priority again, so we fire off 2 trike shots.  After the damage resolves, but before that 5-cmc activation does we have priority so we can respond to the 5-cmc activation by exiling a 3rd card.... and so on.  So we can keep hunting for cards with CMC 2 or less and just stack up a bunch of "add X and sac ooze" activations to the stack.