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Hello Everyone!

I made an account so I can settle a little dispute I had with a friend while playing Magic the Gathering. To start off I'll give you some background information about my friends and I as players. We have been playing for years and have never been to tournaments. We always play Legacy and never Standard. Anyway, moving on the problem at hand. Out on the battlefield I had one Kobold Overlord and a Kobold Taskmaster aswell. My opponent had a Imagecrafter with Psionic Gift and Pemmin's Aura enchanted to him. At the end of my opponents turn I used Terminate to kill the enchanted Imagecrafter . My opponent then used three of his untaped Island to ping off my two creatures. Now I thought it would work like this: Terminate on the bottom of the stack, then the one ping on top and after the one damage went through the Terminate would kill the Imagecrafter . My enemy stated he could ping mutiple times as long as he had the mana. I let it fly 'for now' but was wondering which is the case. Could he ping off both my creatures? Or could he only get one off before the enchated Imagecrafter died? I look forward to your answers and I thank you in advance for reading my post!

Edit: A card was not properly linked.

Thanks again,

Dukereuchre

Would the same ruleing apply to Mana Leak ? Lets say I use it to counter one of his spells, and my opponent pays the required mana, could I cast another one to try and counter it again?

He doesn't even need to let the first ping resolve before he untaps and then pings again.

It's a fairly common misconception that once the Stack starts resolving, every item will resolve.  Items resolve one at a time, and after each seperate item resolves, priorty is passed around again and any player may add more to the stack if they want.

One spell or ability resolves at a time.
The stack resolves in order from top down to bottom (ie. Last In, First Out).

yes, the last ability or spell put on would typically always resolve before the ones beneath it

If I use a tapper on some creature, my ability goes on the stack, you can then tap your Royal Assassin , to activate his ability and the Assassin's ability will resolve first and destroy the tapper and then the tapper's ability would resolve and tap whatever it was targeting (assuming whatever it's targeting isn't already tapped)

Costs are paid on casting/activation.
Effects happen when the spell/ability resolves.

An ability on the stack exists independently of its source. Doing things to the source typically has no effect on the ability.

One more thing just to clarify sorry if I'm being bothersome I'm just trying to understand... If i use Visara the Dreadful to kill a Royal Assassin in response the enemy uses Royal Assassin to kill my Visara the Dreadful . Now the stack would work like this: Royal Assassin ability would go first killing  Visara the Dreadful  and Royal Assassin would remain unharmed? Correct?