MagnusMagicus i know! Thnx buddy

Always happy to help!

@Blasty yes this is how i play it now, and usually play erayo one turn before but i want to make the combo quicker and mostly less vulnerable

@MagnusMagicus i Dont is the short answer. I play an Isochron Scepter deck with Boomerang Muddle the Mixture, Orim's Chant etc in which i try to in corporate Baral, Chief of Compliance and Erayo, Soratami Ascendant. I also want the deck to be quicker so i am trying to add Lotus Petal to see if i can get some cards in quicker.

Right now i either boomerang a Lotus Petal or Unsubstantiate a Ponder each for three spells. Or i play an Enlightened Tutor andBoomerang after i counter a spell.

The other option is to put a Daze in but those are so annoying to draw on turn 5and later....

Anyway, ill keep tinkering and im fairly happy with the deck but if i can add more locks and lockoptions into it without making it slower im happy.

ID be glad to get your input though!
(deck on this account is not uptodate...)

Oooh, very good, I missed that! Indeed, if you want Erayo to flip, she has to be the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd spell you cast that turn.

It might be the safest to cast Erayo first. Because if you cast her as the 3rd spell, and an opponent responds by casting a Brainstorm for example, that Brainstorm will be the 4th spell, but Erayo won't flip because she is not yet on the battlefield.

Erayo, Soratami Ascendant has to be on the battlefield while the fourth spell is cast, she can't be the fourth spell and flip, because she will be on the Stack at that point.

How are you bouncing it right now then?

Ah... So im double in the wrong lol
Ill keep bouncing it for Erayo, Soratami Ascendant and play it again for three spells total. Just need one more mana to do so. Three lands instead of 2 + the lotus. When i play Erayo, Soratami Ascendant as the fourth spell it will turn. (or play erayo, then cast Lotus Petal and sac it to pay for erayo[k]

No, that is not possible

To activate this ability, you pay all the cost (what is before the colon), and then you get the effect( what is after the colon).

So, you sacrifice the Petal (it goes to your graveyard) and you get a mana.

Normally, you can respond to the effect, but because this is a mana ability (that is an ability that generates mana) it just happens and you can't respond.

So in this case it is a double no

Can i Boomerang this after i sacrificed it to play again and net 2 mana out of it? (not counting the boomerang obv...)

Since the ability is a mana source and goes first. I think i can

dóh