If, say, at the beginning of your upkeep, in response to the kinship trigger going on the stack, your opponent killed the creature, does the kinship still happen as normal even though the guy is dead? I would assume so, but a friend told me it wouldn't.
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The game would need to know whether "that card" shares a creature type with a permanent that does not currently exist. These conditions as stated do not imply that making this check is impossible, or that the check always returns 'false'.
In fact, the game can check.
Quote from Comp Rules, Section 413, "Resolving Spells and Abilities" »
413.2f If an effect requires information from the game (such as the number of creatures in play), the answer is determined only once, when the effect is applied. If the effect requires information from a specific object, including the source of the ability itself, the effect uses the current information of that object if it hasn’t changed zones; otherwise, the effect uses the last known information the object had before leaving the zone it was expected to be in. There are two exceptions: (1) if an effect deals damage divided among some number of creatures or players, the amount and division were determined as the spell or ability was put into the stack (see rule 402.6), and (2) static abilities can’t use last known information (see rule 412.5). If the ability text states that an object does something, it’s the object as it exists—or as it most recently existed—that does it, not the ability.
The effect requires information from a specific object (the source of the ability itself). The ability in question is not static, and the effect is not dealing damage. The specific object being sought has changed zones, therefore, its last-known information is used.
Knowledge of that permanent's creature types is to be found among that last-known information.
EDIT: Also, it is not possible to interrupt the resolution of a Kinship ability, after a card has been revealed but before other parts of the effect have applied. You cannot take any game action without priority, and it never happens that a player has priority during the resolution of a spell or ability.
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In fact, the game can check.
The effect requires information from a specific object (the source of the ability itself). The ability in question is not static, and the effect is not dealing damage. The specific object being sought has changed zones, therefore, its last-known information is used.
Knowledge of that permanent's creature types is to be found among that last-known information.
EDIT: Also, it is not possible to interrupt the resolution of a Kinship ability, after a card has been revealed but before other parts of the effect have applied. You cannot take any game action without priority, and it never happens that a player has priority during the resolution of a spell or ability.
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