#nova-zer0

[markrosewater]

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[magicjudge]

How does an evoked creature (like mulldrifter, for instance) interact with Confusion in the Ranks? I was told that the final order of operation is something like: Confusion trade, etb, then evoke sac once the other player has the creature. Is that correct? Thank you as always.

It depends on who controls Confusion in the Ranks and whose turn it is. Mulldrifter’s controller always chooses the relative order of Mulldrifter’s ETB trigger and its Evoke trigger, though.

If both permanents have the same controller, then that player chooses the relative order of the three triggers on the stack.

If different players control Confusion in the Ranks and Mulldrifter and it’s the Mulldrifter player’s turn, then Confusion in the Ranks’ trigger goes on the stack above Mulldrifter’s triggers.

If different players control Confusion in the Ranks and Mullldrifter and it’s the Confusion in the Ranks player’s turn, then Mulldrifter’s triggers go on the stack above Confusion in the Ranks’ trigger.

So what actually happens?

Well, the card draw trigger is trivial here. The player that controlled Mulldrifter when it entered the battlefield will always be the one to draw the cards, and so we can ignore that trigger.

If the Evoke trigger resolves before the Confusion in the Ranks trigger, then Mulldrifter’s controller (who is the same player that controls the evoke trigger) will sacrifice it. Then when Confusion in the Ranks’ trigger resolves, nothing will happen since an exchange needs both permanents to still be on the battlefield in order to occur.

If the Confusion in the Ranks trigger resolves before the Evoke trigger, then Mulldrifer is exchanged for the targeted creature (assuming the target is still legal). When the Evoke trigger goes to resolve, Mulldrifter’s controller will sacrifice it. (Evoke specially says that the creature’s controller sacrifices it, but if it were a general “sacrifice” instruction, nothing would happen since the trigger’s controller can’t sacrifice a creature they don’t control.)