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Title: about mortarpod
Date Posted: Sun Nov/27/11 at 2:28pm

Akinas86
Posts: 327
Joined: 16-Jun-10

if i had a mogg fanatic equipped to a mortarpod, could i use both card's effect simultaneously? does this question even make sense?
Date Posted: Sun Nov/27/11 at 2:53pm

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Yes: The question makes sense!
No: You cant activate them both! Sacrifice is a cost of the effect, so if theres no creature to sacrifice than the ability fizzles!
Date Posted: Sun Nov/27/11 at 6:23pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

I can't really explain it in technical terms, but I know that you can't activate two sacrifice abilities at once.
Date Posted: Sun Nov/27/11 at 6:34pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Doesn't get more techincal then what pinkie wrote.

the sacrifice is a cost for both abilities.  If you pay the cost for one of them, the fanatic is already in the grave before you can pay the cost for the other.

However, and this is a nitpick about common game terms, when an ability "fizzles" it is already on the stack but the target has become illegal.  In this case it is not a fizzle since the cost can't be paid, the ability never happens
Date Posted: Sun Nov/27/11 at 8:22pm

PinkiePie
Posts: 157
Joined: 10-Sep-11

Fizzle is a technical term?! O.o Learning new things every day!
Date Posted: Mon Nov/28/11 at 8:44am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Fizzle is about as technical as you can get. Next to stack manipulation.