Weight of Conscience

[rmkest77]

I've got a mechanical question about weight of conscience.

Let's say my opponent has a weight of consicience in play attached to one of my creatures, and it is my turn. Before I do anything he taps two of his untapped creatures to remove my creature that weight of conscience is attached to. I play from my hand my own weight of conscience and proceed to tap two creatures (one of them being the creature his weight of conscience is attached to and he is tapping to remove). My question is how does this resolve? Does his tapping of the two creatures to remove my creature happen before I play my weight of conscience and tap two creatures?

[ckmcheetah]

Tapping two creatures is the cost to play that ability, there's nothing you can do to prevent the cost from being paid once the ability is on the stack. Therefore playing your own Weight of Conscience does not help you. If the board was setup so that you activated your Weight as a response to his then both creatures with Weight will be RFG

Also Weight of Conscience does not have Flash, therefore you can't play it once something is on the stack (or during upkeep, which I assume is the phase you were in).

[justactcasual]

You can only cast a Weight of Conscience at sorcery speed (because it is an enchantment), so you can't cast it in response to your opponent doing anything.

However, if both were already in play and you each had two creatures (the enchanted creature and another) you could tap your enchanted creature as part of the cost of the ability of your weight in response to your opponent's activation of the ability of his weight. Both abilities would resolve leaving you each with one tapped unenchanted creature.

[rmkest77]

So how would priority affect this situation? Since it is my turn, would him activating the ability be going out of priority? I was going to play the Weight of Conscience regardless of what he did not in response to it.

[ckmcheetah]

After you untap there's the upkeep step. If you do not play any instants or abilities during this step you actually pass priority to him, this is where he can play the ability on weight. then your creature is removed during upkeep and on your main phase you play your Weight.

[rmkest77]

i see now, i can't play the enchantment during the upkeep step because only instants and abilities can be played then, right?

[Destroyer51]

correct. if he tried to do it after your main phase you could say wait! i have priority! and do your thing. but then in response to you casting it he could activate the ability, RFG your guy and then your spell would resolve.

[rmkest77]

so it is possible to play something in response to someone casting a permanent, such as me playing Weight of Conscience