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11 months ago ::
Aug 04, 2012 - 11:31PM
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Apr 23, 2012
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The Rules Q & A has a section about priority i've been reading but I'm a little confused about one point. Here's a link to QA community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758..." Another example: Player A casts Time Warp and has a Twincast in hand. Player B has a Cancel in hand. Player A would like to use Twincast on the Time Warp, but wants to see if Player B is going to cast Cancelfirst, so that he doesn't waste the Twincast. Meanwhile Player B wants to see if Player A is going to cast Twincast before casting Cancel, so that he can potentially get rid of both spells at once. Who has to make the first move here, and who gets to wait and see what the opponent is doing?"
The answer turned out to be that Player A gets priority again after Time Warp so he has to decide whether or not to use Twincast at that point. My question is, why can't player A cast Time Warp  , pass priority, then after seeing whether or not his opponent casts Cancel  , decide to use Twincast  to copy Time Warp? As in, if player B passes priority, can player A Twincast on time warp?
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11 months ago ::
Aug 04, 2012 - 11:32PM
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Jan 24, 2011
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Because once all players pass in succession, the top item of the stack resolves.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 04, 2012 - 11:35PM
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so you're forced into a choice between double-or-nothing or playing it safe.
Risk losing both to a counterspell or play it safe and get one for sure (you can Twincast any counterspell they cast and counter their counter) well, unless they have another counter...
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11 months ago ::
Aug 04, 2012 - 11:37PM
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Once all players pass, the top of stack resolves. That explained it perfectly, thanks guys 
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11 months ago ::
Aug 04, 2012 - 11:39PM
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Mar 29, 2005
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Once all players pass, the top of stack resolves. That explained it perfectly, thanks guys
More precisely, once all players pass in succession without adding anything new to the stack.
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11 months ago ::
Aug 05, 2012 - 12:10PM
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Sep 17, 2004
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More precisely, once all players pass in succession without adding anything new to the stack.
Without doing anything. Turning a card with morph face up doesn't use the stack, but neither does it count as part of passing in succession.
116.4. If all players pass in succession (that is, if all players pass without taking any actions in between passing), the spell or ability on top of the stack resolves or, if the stack is empty, the phase or step ends.
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