Mentor Ability
Asked by Cybersix 5 years ago
So looking through the new stuff, Notion Rain seems good, but if I get the right cards in PR I'd love 4 Swiftblade Vindicators...my question is how exactly Mentor happens. Trigger: 'Whenever a lower power creature attacks, put a +1/+1'. So what about if I have multiple attacking creatures with Mentor, say a Swiftblade and 2 other mentor creatures? Would the Swiftblade get 2 counters or only one?
In the future, there is a section of the site in the header - the Rules Q&A - that is for rules questions specifically.
Legion Warboss for an example of a mentor creature.
If Swiftblade Vindicator and 2 warbosses are attacking together (ignoring the tokens they create), you get two instances of mentor targeting the Vindicator. Only one of them will actually resolve.
Mentor is an ability that triggers whenever the creature with mentor attacks. You choose another attacking creature with lesser power as the target. As the ability resolves, compare the powers of the two creatures again. If the target creature's power is still less than the power of the creature with mentor, put a +1/+1 counter on the target creature. If something happened in response to the mentor ability such that the target creature no longer has lesser power, the mentor ability won't do anything.
September 19, 2018 11:51 a.m.
To add on to what Boza said, a spell or ability that targets checks twice that the target is valid: once when you cast/activate/trigger it, and once again when it resolves.
The two mentor triggers can both target Swiftblade Vindicator because at the time you choose targets, Swiftblade will have lesser power. Then the first trigger will resolve, check that Swiftblade still has lesser power, and make it a 2/2. Then the second trigger will resolve, check Swiftblade, and see that it no longer meets the criteria for being a valid target, and thus be removed from the stack without resolving.
Cybersix says... #1
To clarify, I'm asking about a situation where the second +1/+1 would push Swiftblade out of mentor range, do the mentor abilities happen simultaneously or not?
September 19, 2018 11:41 a.m.