In other words, there's no way to have the ability trigger if you don't have the city's blessing, even if you intend to get it in response to the triggered ability. " You must already have the city's blessing in order for these abilities to trigger otherwise they do nothing. These are worded ", if you have the city's blessing. Some cards have triggered abilities with an intervening "if" clause that checks whether you have the city's blessing.If your tenth permanent enters the battlefield and then a permanent leaves the battlefield immediately afterward (most likely due to the " Legend Rule" or due to being a creature with 0 toughness), you get the city's blessing before it leaves the battlefield.For example, if you control ten permanents, lose control of one, then cast Golden Demise, you won't have the city's blessing and the spell will affect creatures you control. If you control ten permanents but don't control a permanent or resolving spell with ascend, you don't get the city's blessing.This means that if your tenth permanent is a land you play, players can't respond before you get the city's blessing. Players can respond to a spell that will give you your tenth permanent, but they can't respond to getting the city's blessing once you control that tenth permanent. Ascend on a permanent isn't a triggered ability and doesn't use the stack.Players may respond to that spell by trying to change whether you get the city's blessing. If you cast a spell with ascend, you don't get the city's blessing until it resolves.A permanent is any object on the battlefield, including tokens and lands.The city's blessing isn't a permanent itself and can't be removed by any effect. Once you have the city's blessing, you have it for the rest of the game, even if you lose control of some or all of your permanents.702.131d After a player gets the city’s blessing, continuous effects are reapplied before the game checks to see if the game state or preceding events have matched any trigger conditions.Any number of players may have the city’s blessing at the same time. 702.131c The city’s blessing is a designation that has no rules meaning other than to act as a marker that other rules and effects can identify.It means “Any time you control ten or more permanents and you don’t have the city’s blessing, you get the city’s blessing for the rest of the game.” 702.131b Ascend on a permanent represents a static ability.It means “If you control ten or more permanents and you don’t have the city’s blessing, you get the city’s blessing for the rest of the game.” 702.131a Ascend on an instant or sorcery spell represents a spell ability.Multiple players can all have the city's blessing at the same time.įrom the Comprehensive Rules (June 16, 2023- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth) Once you have the city's blessing, you keep it for the rest of the game.
Those instructions appear after the ascend ability, so they'll happen after the check.
The permanent with ascend has to be under your control to check. When Ascend appears on instants and sorceries, it checks if you control ten or more permanents only once, as the spell resolves.Īscend doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to, but note this only is relevant if the land is the tenth permanent, as the only special action that adds a permanent. The moment you do, you get the city's blessing. If ascend is on a permanent, it constantly checks to see whether you control ten or more permanents. Ascend always looks at the current game state, not the past. Ascend unlocks different bonuses on different cards if you have the city's blessing.
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