Combo Question

Asked by Surrak_and_Roll 6 years ago

Does Saheeli Rai + Zealous Conscripts go infinite with Saheeli's minus ability? I'm pretty sure it doesn't work but I'm not too familiar with rules regarding walkers so wanted confirmation.

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1

No.

Loyalty abilities don't require you to tap the planeswalker to activate them, so untapping a planeswalker doesn't really do anything.

More importantly, there's a rule that you can only activate one loyalty ability of a permanent on each of your turns. Unless you have The Chain Veil or blink Saheeli Rai, you're not getting around that problem.

April 28, 2017 11:32 a.m.

Neotrup says... #2

Also relevant, even if this did work, you'd still need to be able to pay the cost of removing two loyalty counters from Saheeli Rai, which means you'd need to have a combo to put infinite loyalty counters on her as well. Her -7 ability is probably good enough once you have that combo going.

April 28, 2017 11:51 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #3

Gaining control of a permanent doesn't cause it to re-enter the battlefield. Saheeli Rai won't get back any loyalty if you target her with the copy of Zealous Conscripts, and as was mentioned before, the rules about loyalty abilities mean you won't be allowed to activate Saheeli again.

April 28, 2017 12:45 p.m.

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