The Legend Rule is a state-based action (SBA), which are checked and performed each time a player receives priority. SBAs do not use the stack and can not be responded to, but enters the battlefield triggers will still be placed on the stack.
Can you sacrifice before legend rule?
Apart from those changes, the “legend rule” works the same way as it did before. It’s still a state-based action that’s performed before any player receives priority. And permanents going to the graveyard due to the “legend rule” aren’t being sacrificed or destroyed, although they will count as dying.
When do we change the legendary rule in magic?
As Matt mentioned in his article, beginning with Magic 2014 Core Set, we are changing how the game handles several things, including legendary and Planeswalker uniqueness.
Can you use a clone on a legendary creature?
* You can use any old Clone on a legendary creature if you need it to exist quite briefly (such as to get the enter the battlefield trigger on Archangel Avacyn ), but you will have to lose all but one of them the next time state based actions are checked. ** This works because the legend rule care about things with the same name:
How often do we use legendary creatures in magic?
We have always used legendary creatures to tell the story of the people and creatures of the planes we visit, but increasingly use Planeswalkers to tell the more epic story between planes and over multiple years. This continued canon, of course, leads to us making new versions of most Planeswalkers every few years.
Do you use the legend rule to kill your opponent?
While it was useful to use the “legend rule” and clones to kill your opponent’s hard-to-target legends, or to play your Planeswalker to kill your opponent’s, the general feeling within the Pit was that this interaction was not how we wanted games to be decided.
