If I have Wild Pair on the battlefield, can I search multiple times?
Asked by JoyTheEnbySliverLover 5 years ago
The rule text states, "Whenever a creature comes into play (enters the battlefield), if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness and put it into play (onto the battlefield). If you do, shuffle your library." My question is, does the card I searched for trigger the ability again? It is coming into play or entering the battlefield isn't it? The wording certainly sounds like I can but I want a more definitive answer as I can't find a ruling suggesting it does or doesn't trigger multiple times.
It's not even if you're putting it into the battlefield from your hand. Elvish Piper puts a creature card from your hand onto the battlefield, but it doesen't trigger Wild Pair.
The key point is that Wild Pair says "If you cast it from your hand." Placing it onto the battlefield, even from your hand, isn't necessarily casting it. In order to cast it from your hand, you have to pay its mana cost (or another effect tells you to cast it without paying its mana cost), and it goes onto the stack before entering the battlefield. "From your hand" is important because in EDH/Commander, casting your commander from the command zone won't trigger Wild Pair either, because you're not casting it from your hand (and other things might allow for casting from the graveyard or from exile, which again, are not casting from your hand).
So Wild Pair doesn't trigger itself because you're not casting the creature at all, and it's certainly not casting it from your hand.
JoyTheEnbySliverLover says... Accepted answer #1
I just answered my own question, no it can't. I put the searched card onto the battlefield from my library not my hand. A rather silly misreading of the card on my behalf.
January 2, 2019 7:59 a.m.