Oath/Blessing/Eternal Witness

[Jaynel]

This won't ever come up in Legacy anytime in the near future, but what happens when:

Oath triggers
Mill Gaea's Blessing, trigger is put on the stack
Oath finds Eternal Witness
Eternal Witness Trigger is put on the stack

Does Witness get to nab a card, or will the yard already be shuffled back?

[Sanguine Voyeur]

After Oath's ability is done resolving, triggers will be put on the stack. The Witness's and Blessing's trigger will be put on the stack at the same time, so you would get to choose the order.

I'm not absolutely positive, but I'm pretty sure.

[nastynate]

Since you control both triggers (Blessing and Witness), you choose the order in which they go on the stack.

If you want to get silly, you can even put the blessing into your hand from your graveyard, and then shuffle the rest of your graveyard back into your library.

[Jaynel]

Awesome. Thanks a lot!

[Isamaru]

Have you seen the deck that has only one Oath target? It's 1 Eternal Witness.

She comes into play and brings you back Yawgmoth's Will which you promptly cast with FoW backup.

Then you play Black Lotus into Fastbond and go to town casting all your draw spells, and then Tendrils, etc. all from your graveyard-library. :smile:

[Anusien]

Note: there's a difference between a trigger triggering (conditions have been met) and going on the stack. Nothing can go on the stack in the middle of something resolving, but they can trigger.

Oath triggers, goes on the stack and resolves.
Oath puts Gaea's Blessing into the graveyard, Blessing triggers.
Oath puts Eternal Witness into play.
Eternal Witness's ability triggers.
State-based effects are checked.
Every ability that has triggered goes on the stack in APNAP order.

So since you control both Witness and Blessing, you choose the order they go on the stack. Also Eternal Witness chooses a target when it goes on the stack.

:)