If either creature is an illegal target as Ram Through tries to resolve, the creature you control won’t deal damage to any creature or player. Excess damage caused by a spell or ability is similar to how combat damage from a creature with trample is handled.
Is direct damage combat damage?
So damage from creatures during combat is combat damage. 119.2b Damage may be dealt as an effect of a spell or ability. The spell or ability will specify which object deals that damage. And that is direct damage from an object.
Do instants count as combat damage?
Damage dealt by a spell or ability is not combat damage.
Can you block a sorcery in Magic?
Yes, you can counter it. Use Negate, Dissolve, et cetera. Note that this doesn’t really help that much against the first-turn Thoughtseize unless you’ve got access to a counterspell that doesn’t cost any mana, like Mental Misstep or Force of Will.
Can you cast an instant during your upkeep?
During the upkeep and draw steps, however, players can cast instants and activate abilities as normal.
Can you respond to an instant with a sorcery?
For the second thing, again, you can play your instant just fine whether you’re responding to a sorcery, instant, ability, enchantment, whatever, so long as you have priority and a legal target for it. Yes, your third Lightning Bolt would be legal.
Can you respond to your own instant MTG?
Yes, but to do so you must say you intend to keep priority the moment you cast the sorcery. YOU start with priority immediately after putting any spell on the stack, but because it would be real tedious in a game of magic to say ‘I pass’ about 20 times a turn, there are such things as ‘implicit passing’.
Can you respond to your own spells?
This is legal. It is also legal to play one ability and tell your opponent you are retaining priority so you can immediately play something else. This will cause the activated ability and both spells to all be on the stack simultaneously.
Can you destroy a creature on the stack?
The creature then enters the battlefield and any resulting triggers go on the stack. You then get priority again. You could destroy the creature but that won’t affect the triggers. You could interact with the triggers if you had one of the very special spells that do so.
When can a player hold priority?
You hold priority when you need to take additional actions before a previous action resolves, and those additional actions depend on the previous actions.
Can you respond to a Planeswalker ability?
planeswalker abilities act just like any other activated ability. they use the stack and can be responded to, so yes you can doom blade the creature in response to venser’s ability.
