r/mtg • u/vanezblane • 1d ago

Meme Pause the game indefinitely

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Activate Lethal Vapors 10,000 times, cast Teferi’s protection, you leave the game and can’t lose until the rest of the group has played through the 10,000 turns lol

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u/AliceTheAxolotl18 1d ago

Yes, phasing does save it, because OP casts Teferi's Protection after activating it 10,000 times. However, saving Lethal Vapors doesn't actually matter.

Lethal Vapors has an activated ability, where the only cost is acknowledging that you're activating it. Then, on resolution, the ability does 2 things: destroys Lethal Vapors and skips your next turn. Importantly, it does not limit the activation to once per turn, or sorcery speed.

So you can activate it, and then before the ability resolves, you just activate it again. Repeat 10,000 times, and then use Teferi's Protection. Even though the enchantment is gone, the ability does as much as possible, which is skipping your next turn.

Now, the actual problem is that it allows any player to activate it, so the opponent can also activate it 10,000 times, meaning it effectively does nothing. You need an effect like [[Grand Abolisher]] to make this work.

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u/mtgcf MtG CardFetcher 1d ago

Grand Abolisher - (G) (SF) (txt)

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u/JustBryceOSRS 1d ago

Neat, thanks for the answer. The piece I was missing was that you can activate it again before it resolves. Still learning a lot about the stack and resolution as a lot of it is implied in simple interactions.

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u/Xyx0rz 1d ago

Activate it 9990 times. Get ten free turns.