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Situation: Last card in my opponent's deck is son of god. I have destruction of nehushtan in my hand. opponent plays U and T and knows I have DoN. He activates gifts of the magi and rescues with hur. What is the correct order of drawing and actions? I obviously am keeping DoN. Can I announcing intentions to play it thus stopping him from drawing Son of God, playing it, and then winning?

I believe you would have the opportunity to respond to the activating of Gifts before he can shove Hur into battle.

However, if you did not play DoN prior to Hur rescuing then your opponent does have the opportunity to respond to his own action first.

However, if you did not play DoN prior to Hur rescuing then your opponent does have the opportunity to respond to his own action first.

For reference, that was discussed and ruled in this thread, which was also on Gifts.

The TL;DR of that part of thread: If an opponent moves to the battle phase without allowing an opportunity for opponents' dominants/abilities to be played before the end of the prep phase, the dominants/abilities may still be played.  Further, the person who 'pushed the hero into battle' could choose a different hero to start the battle, if desired, as the prep phase hadn't actually ended yet.  An opportunity to activate abilities and play dominants must be afforded all players in phases that they could be used.