How do Saskia and Gisela Interact?
Asked by DemonDragonJ 4 years ago
If a player controls both Saskia the Unyielding and Gisela, Blade of Goldnight, has chosen a second player as the target of Saskia's ability, and then attacks a third player, how much damage will she deal to the second player?
My guess is that she shall deal 6 damage to the first player (due to Gisela's ability doubling it) and then 12 damage to the second player (due to Gisela doubling it, again), but I wish to be certain of that interaction.
What does everyone else say about this?
DemonDragonJ says... #2
Kogarashi, thank you very much; I am glad that I checked to confirm that.
Kogarashi says... Accepted answer #1
I assume you're attacking with Saskia the Unyielding. It's worth noting that Saskia's ability will trigger whenever any creature you control deals combat damage to any player. But for the sake of this example, we'll say Saskia's controller just attacks with Saskia herself.
Assuming Saskia actually deals her damage to the defending player, the replacement effect on Gisela, Blade of Goldnight implicates. Saskia will deal double damage instead, for a total of 6 damage to the defending player. Because a creature you control (Saskia) dealt damage to a player, Saskia's ability triggers. When it resolves, the same creature that dealt damage to trigger the ability in the first place will then deal "that much" damage to the chosen player. In this case, "that much" damage should be 6, because that's how much was done to the defending player, but Gisela's replacement effect implicates again (it's a new instance of a source dealing damage to an opponent), and doubles it, for 12.
As I mentioned, it doesn't have to be Saskia attacking. You could attack with a 1/1 Goblin token and the same abilities would work (as long as the goblin is damaging a player somehow). Also you could attack the chosen player and Saskia's ability would still trigger and cause extra damage to be dealt.
March 22, 2020 10:10 p.m.