Can’t use stifle. Gifting seems like an activated ability but it counts as an extra cost that you pay by “promising a gift”. The promise itself does nothing, but its then a status the card is aware of (the “gift was promised”). When the card is resolving, it checks that status and does whatever the gift is.
So the actual “opponent gets another turn” part of the card that we’d wanna counter, that’s part of the spell itself, after the gift was paid. If we could counter the act of gifting without countering the whole card, the result would be that the gift was not promised, and we still wouldn’t get the benefits of the gift.
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Can you use stifle or something like that to counter the gift?
Can’t use stifle. Gifting seems like an activated ability but it counts as an extra cost that you pay by “promising a gift”. The promise itself does nothing, but its then a status the card is aware of (the “gift was promised”). When the card is resolving, it checks that status and does whatever the gift is.
So the actual “opponent gets another turn” part of the card that we’d wanna counter, that’s part of the spell itself, after the gift was paid. If we could counter the act of gifting without countering the whole card, the result would be that the gift was not promised, and we still wouldn’t get the benefits of the gift.
In short, no.
Alright, so it is essentially kicker that requires a valid target on casting.
Kicker: target opponent takes an extra turn
I think Gerrard’s Hourglass Pendant and Ugin’s Nexus are the only extra turn prevention that would work.