2 Willbreakers on your field
Asked by Trockenmatt 8 years ago
Willbreaker states that you gain control of the creatures UNTIL WILLBREAKER LEAVES THE BATTLEFIELD.
Those last few words offer up some problems, specifically, what if I have 2 Willbreakers on the field? Are the old creatures "attached" to the old Willbreaker? Or, if they kill the old one, I still have a Willbreaker so the creatures stay? I am so confused!
I don't know that this is how it works. By the time the second Willbreaker's ability would resolve you already have control of the creature, so the 2nd Willbreaker's ability should fizzle right? Meaning if you have two Willbreaker's you would need to keep up with which one is controlling which creatures.
Sorry for reviving a dead question but I didn't think this would work like it is explained...
October 16, 2015 10:58 a.m.
DruneGrey No, both triggers will still resolve. There's nothing specifically barred in the rules about gaining control of something you already control, and Willbreaker's ability doesn't target so there's nothing to fizzle because it's no longer "a creature an opponent controls".
The "a creature an opponent controls" is part of what's causing it to trigger, but the ability itself is just "gain control of that creature".
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #1
Whenever a card refers to itself in its rules text it always means [this card]. So, if you have a Willbreaker in play and you snatch one of your opponent's creatures it will have its control changing layer stamped with that Willbreaker. If you play a 2nd Willbreaker later and lose the first one you will lose control of the creature you took with the Willbreaker you lost.
Now, if you have 2 Willbreakers and tag an opponent's creature, both Willbreaker's will trigger and they both stamp the control change layer, so they must both be removed to give the creature back.
July 8, 2015 1:15 a.m.