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Can you use Baited Hook, then stack Altar of Souls on the trigger so that Altar resolves first before Baited Hook finishes resolving?
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Ruling: No, you cannot interrupt Baited Hook's resolution with Altar of Souls. When Baited Hook kills a unit, Altar triggers as pending on the chain but must wait until Baited Hook completely finishes resolving before Altar can resolve.
Sequence:
- Activate Baited Hook (pay costs), the ability goes onto the chain and finalizes (choose which unit to kill but don't kill it yet)
- Reaction opportunity
- Baited Hook resolves: kill the unit
- Altar triggers and goes onto the chain as pending
- Baited Hook continues resolving: look at top 5 cards, choose a unit, banish it, then play that unit
- The unit goes onto the chain as pending, on top of Altar
- Finish resolving Baited Hook by recycling the other cards
- Finalize Altar on the chain
- Finalize the chosen unit on the chain (choose location, potentially pay additional costs)
- The unit immediately resolves
- Reaction opportunity on Altar's effect
- Altar resolves: choose whether to exhaust it to do its effect or not
Nuances:
- Altar is only exhausted when it resolves, not when it triggers
- The unit from Baited Hook is banished due to Baited Hook errata
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