The Battlefield

Carrion Feeder

$3.03

Luminous Broodmoth

$2.23

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Carrion Feeder + Luminous Broodmoth

Overview

If you activate Carrion Feeder’s sacrifice ability and sacrifice another creature, that creature “dies” (is put into the graveyard) as you pay the cost, causing Luminous Broodmoth’s triggered ability to trigger; triggered abilities are handled as described in , so the Broodmoth trigger will be put on the stack and (because the sacrifice happened while paying costs) will be above the activated ability on the stack. If you instead sacrifice Carrion Feeder itself to its own ability, you pay the cost but the activated ability won’t put a +1/+1 counter on the original Carrion Feeder (it’s no longer the same object); Luminous Broodmoth can still trigger and return that creature with a flying counter (see Ruling [2020-04-17]).

Step 1

You announce activation of Carrion Feeder’s ability and begin paying costs; as part of paying the cost you sacrifice a creature (this is a zone change that puts that creature into the graveyard).

Step 2

The creature being put into the graveyard is the event that causes Luminous Broodmoth’s triggered ability to trigger (Broodmoth watches for creatures you control without flying dying).

Step 3

Because paying costs happens before the activated ability is put on the stack, the activated ability is on the stack and then, when state-based actions are checked, the Broodmoth triggered ability is put on the stack above the activated ability — triggered-ability placement and SBA handling are governed by .

Step 4

The Broodmoth trigger will resolve first; it returns the creature that died to the battlefield under its owner’s control with a flying counter (assuming no replacement effects prevent that).

Step 5

After the Broodmoth trigger resolves, the Carrion Feeder activated ability will resolve next; if Carrion Feeder remained on the battlefield, it receives the +1/+1 counter. If Carrion Feeder was the creature sacrificed earlier, the activated ability won’t find the original object on the battlefield, so it won’t put a counter on the returned object (the returned creature is a new object).

Resolution

Sacrificing another creature to Carrion Feeder: the sacrificed creature will trigger Luminous Broodmoth and (when that trigger resolves) return to the battlefield with a flying counter; Carrion Feeder’s activated ability will later resolve and put a +1/+1 counter on the Carrion Feeder that’s still on the battlefield. Sacrificing Carrion Feeder itself to its own ability: the sacrifice is paid, the Feeder is put into the graveyard, Broodmoth’s trigger may return it with a flying counter, but the Carrion Feeder activated ability will not put a +1/+1 counter on the returned object because the returned creature is a new object (Ruling [2020-04-17] and triggered-ability placement per ).

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