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Rules Commander Players Get Wrong | 521

The Command Zone

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The Importance of Priority in Magic

Holding priority is so that you can make sure that another instant or ability will go off before your original spells results. So a card like Ash Nods Alter doesn't actually use the stack. People do not get priority. They do not have a chance to be able to activate things or cast spells which does make sense, right? The tricky part gets to cards like Ash Nod's Alter which gives you mana but also sacrifices a creature to do it. It just has a different ability. One adds Mana and then the other mills.

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