Gift tooltip seems misleading.
Today I had an interaction where my opponent played Scrapshooter
to kill my Chimil
. I was going planning to counter this spell, but after reviewing the tooltip text for gift - "You may promise an opponent a gift when you cast this card. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects."
- I decided to wait until after the card draw resolved to cast my counterspell. Unfortunately, what happened was that I ended up passing through the resolution for the destruction of the artifact because the effect actually resolves before the gift, in direct contradiction to the tooltip. After consulting the discord, I've determined that apparently because it's a permanent it does not behave like the other nonpermanent gift spells. In this case, I believe the tooltip should be modified for gift permanents to reflect this case.
Edit: I realize I would not have been able to cast the counterspell successfully after the gift; that is beside the point. My issue is that the artifact destruction completely resolves before the card draw is put on the stack, in direct contradiction to the tooltip.
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FreqNegative#44876 commented
I had the same interaction with Scrapshooter. I would expect the card draw to occur before the triggered ability.
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sparksfamilyvalues#95319 commented
Scrapshooter’s Gift will happen as a trigger when it enters the battlefield.
All of this is irrelevant really, as Chimil says “Spells can’t be countered”