Does blade of selves trigger siege behemoth tokens?

Asked by Mr_crazydude 7 years ago

In a game of commander/EDH with 4 players (yourself and 3 opponents in a free for all). If you would equip Blade of Selves to a Siege Behemoth and attack a random opponent would the tokens also get the trigger?

Usually things are worded like: "when this attacks do stuff" ignoring the myriad trigger. Yet I was wondering if that applied to Siege Behemoth as well? Because it simple says 'attacking'.

In that case a single behemoth attacking would mean the original deals it's 7 damage + 2 times 7 damage from the tokens (=21 damage). Then the tokens do the exact same thing. Meaning the total damage would be a staggering 3*(7+7+7) = 63 damage! (...and then combat happens)

Is this true or am I seeing/thinking of things that aren't there again? :)

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1

I think you're misreading what Siege Behemoth does.

SB has a static ability that just acts like trample. You can assign combat damage as though SB weren't blocked. This isn't a triggered ability, and it doesn't create extra damage.

February 17, 2017 3:07 p.m.

Mr_crazydude says... #2

aaah ok that explains it. You get the option of choosing whether a creature deals combat damage to a creature blocking it or to a player/planeswalker.

so in my case they can deal 21 damage and multiple siege behemoths effects are redundant. That makes a lot more sense. Thx

February 17, 2017 3:15 p.m.

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