Arch fiend of Ifnir’s Interactions with cards like Zombie Infestation

Asked by xseiber 5 years ago

In my mind as I read Archfiend of Ifnir, if I use a card say, Zombie Infestation with it on the field, Archfiend would nuke my opponent’s creatures with two -1/-1 counters each time, since I am discarding 2 cards via Zombie Infestation. On the flip side, I could be wrong and it’s just one -1/-1 counters that Archfiend gives out each time if I’m using a card that discard multiple cards at once, another example would be something like One with Nothing

FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #1

Archfiend of Ifnir triggers when you discard "[a] card", not when you discard "one or more cards" which is the wording of effects that only trigger once for an event that could happen multiple times in an action. See for example: The Gitrog Monster.

Your first reading is correct, discarding 2 cards will trigger Archfiend of Ifnir twice.

May 26, 2018 3:44 p.m. Edited.