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No_Life_No_Future
03-16-2007, 02:15 AM
When you comendeer a spell would you gain control of its triggered storm ability?

Commandeer
5UU (7), Instant
You may remove two blue cards in your hand from the game rather than pay Commandeer's mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact or enchantment, the permanent comes into play under your control.)


After you gain control of the spell, references to ----"you"--- in the card text refer to you and not the former controller.

502.30 Storm
502.30a Storm is a triggered ability that functions while the spell is on the stack. "Storm" means "When you play this spell, put a copy of it onto the stack for each other spell that was played before it this turn. If the spell has any targets, ---you--- may choose new targets for any number of the copies."
502.30b If a spell has multiple instances of storm, each triggers separately.

Tacosnape
03-16-2007, 02:26 AM
No. Here's why.

Storm, as you quoted, is a triggered ability that goes on to the stack when you play the spell that has Storm. Priority doesn't pass between the time you announce the spell and the time you put the Storm trigger on the stack. So when you play the storm spell, say, Brain Freeze, you get the following stack:

1. Brain Freeze, Controlled by Player A.
2. Storm trigger, as of yet unresolved, controlled by Player A.

If Commandeer is played here, targeting the Brain Freeze, the stack would look like this:

1. Brain Freeze, Controlled by Player A.
2. Storm trigger, as of yet unresolved, controlled by Player A.
3. Commandeer targeting Brain Freeze, Controlled by Player B.

After resolution of Commandeer, here's what you have:

1. Brain Freeze, now controlled by Player B.
2. Storm trigger, as of yet unresolved, controlled by Player A.

Once the Storm trigger resolves, your stack will then consist of the initial spell you controlled, followed by all the copies, which will still be controlled by your opponent. Therefore your Commandeered Copy will resolve only after all the trigger copies resolve and it sucks to be you.

...It's really a shame they haven't yet made a spell that gains control of a triggered ability whilst on the stack.