I played Acquisitions Expert in MTG Arena. My opponent reacted with Stomp adventure of Bonecrusher Giant and killed the Acquisitions Expert. Even though I saw my Acquisitions Expert's ability still being on the stack after Stomp resolved, Acquisitions Expert's ability did not resolve and opponent did not have to discard a card. Why did this happen? I just can't figure it out.
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4It should have resolved. But a crucial part of that would be knowing how many creatures were in your party when it resolved. If the Acquisitions Expert was the only one and was dead when the ability resolved, the ability won't do anything useful (reveal 0 cards and discard 1/0 cards = discard nothing).– BecuzzCommented Dec 29, 2020 at 14:37
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1@Becuzz That it is! I did not consider that when the ability came to be resolved, the Acquisition Expert was no longer in play so the party was indeed 0 in size and thus empty trigger was skipped instead of showing me 0 cards to choose from. Thanks!– eXPRESSCommented Dec 29, 2020 at 14:41
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3@Becuzz That would be good to post as an answer.– doppelgreenerCommented Dec 29, 2020 at 15:39
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1@eXPRESS technically the trigger did resolve (would matter for anything that cares about that, can't think of anything) but MTGa auto chooses target opponent since there's only one, and because it asked to reveal 0 cards and discard 1 out of those 0 the game auto handles things where no actual choices need to be made - but for purposes of anything that might care about triggered abilities resolving, it didn't actually fizzle or skip the trigger, it just resolved behind the scenes doing nothing.– AndrewCommented Dec 29, 2020 at 17:02
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@Andrew Yeah, you are right I did not word it properly, by skipped I meant auto resolve.– eXPRESSCommented Dec 29, 2020 at 17:20
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It should have resolved. But a crucial part of that would be knowing how many creatures were in your party when it resolved. If the Acquisitions Expert was the only one and was dead when the ability resolved, the ability won't do anything useful (reveal 0 cards and discard 1 out of 0 cards means discard nothing).
The Expert makes your opponent reveal cards equal to the amount of creatures in your party, you then choose one of the revealed cards to discard. What often happens when you play the expert on turn 2, is that you have no other creatures in your party.
What then happens is if your opponent is savvy is that he kills the expert in response to its trigger. This leaves your party empty when the ability resolves, meaning you reveal 0 cards and making it impossible to choose a card to discard.
answered Dec 30, 2020 at 17:13
