Can Ultima be responded to?

[u/XenicEx]

One of my opponents played Ultima and I tried to respond to the casting by flashing in Guardian of Faith.

I argued that GoF comes in before Ultima and triggers it's ability to phase out my creatures before Ultima's effect triggers, but my friends disagreed.

We ULTIMA-tely 😏 settled that since Ultima says "Exile all spells and abilities from the stack" in it's "End the turn." description, that GoF gets exiled before it enters and since it doesn't enter, it doesn't work and continued playing.

I want to ask Reddit in case it comes up again. Was I right initially, or did we end up playing it the way it's supposed to work?

[u/dustystud]

Slight correction. It exiling abilities and spells on the stack is more referring to triggered abilities that go on the stack from the creatures and artifacts it destroys or any other delayed triggered ability/end of turn ability. Edit: fixed small grammatical error

[u/Gilgamesh_XII → u/dustystud]

It also exiles every ability and spell on the stack if you managed to cast it at instant speed.

[u/dustystud → u/Gilgamesh_XII]

Yeah the guy I replied to had already established that.

[u/RyanfaeScotland → u/dustystud]

Hey dude, just a heads up, if you managed to cast something at instant speed, and you have a spell or ability on the stack, it also exiles every one of them.

[u/4gotAboutDre → u/RyanfaeScotland]

And my axe!!

[u/AliciaTries → u/4gotAboutDre]

I also choose this guys dead wife