Can you play an instant after attackers are declared?

You can cast instants and spells with flash before blockers are declared. You can cast instant spells any time you have priority, including after attackers are declared and before blockers are declared (C.R. 116.1a, 508.2, 116.3d).

How does priority work in combat MTG?

If the active player declares no attackers, the game passes immediately to the End of Combat Step, skipping the remainder of the Declare Attackers Step and intervening steps (308.4). After a legal attack is declared, the active player gets priority.

Can I play an instant when it’s not my turn?

Yes, you can play an instant any time you have priority, which happens after each spell cast or action taken, barring any effects that prevent you from playing an instant.

How does an instant work in MTG?

Instants, like sorceries, represent one-shot or short-term magical spells. They are never put onto the battlefield; instead, they take effect when their mana cost is paid and the spell resolves, and then are immediately put into the player’s graveyard.

Can you play instants during combat?

Instants are spells that can be cast at any time, even during your opponent’s turn or during combat. Like sorceries, instants have a one-time effect, and then you put them into your graveyard.

Can you play instants before damage?

Yes, you can cast ‘Holy Day’ after he casts all those instants to prevent the damage.

How does attacking work in magic?

A creature must be untapped in order for it to block. Each creature can only block a single attacker, but the defending player may choose to block an attacking creature with more than one creature. Both players are given a chance to cast instants and activate abilities after blockers have been declared.

Are instants permanent?

Instant and sorcery cards can’t enter the battlefield and thus can’t be permanents. Some tribal cards can enter the battlefield and some can’t, depending on their other card types.

Which instant goes first MTG?

Short Answer: As long as they chose to cast the instant before you chose the cards to discard, then the Instant applies (resolves) first. Magic the gathering uses a stack for casting spells. This means that literally all spells being cast go on the stack.

Do instants count as combat damage?

No. You can only play sorceries, or enchantments, during your main phase when the stack is empty and you have priority. You cannot (normally) cast any kind of spell other than instants during combat.

What is first strike MTG?

702.7a First strike is a static ability that modifies the rules for the combat damage step. Removing first strike from a creature after it has already dealt combat damage in the first combat damage step won’t allow it to also assign combat damage in the second combat damage step (unless the creature has double strike).