Mesmeric Orb + Sidisi Brood Tyrant = How Many Zombies?
Asked by GorehoundABB 6 years ago
Scenario
Mesmeric Orb mills say in this case 8 because of the untapping of 8 permanents and if in those 8 cards about 4 of them are creatures.
If Sidisi, Brood Tyrant is on the battlefield how many zombie do I get?
Is each permanent a separate trigger for Mesmeric Orb or all at once?
If it is all at once, I should net 1 zombie opposed to 4 in this scenario.
Rhadamanthus says... #2
You get 4 zombies. The way it's written, Mesmeric Orb triggers separately for each permanent that untaps. That means in your example you have 8 distinct triggers to process. Sidisi, Brood Tyrant will trigger for each one of them that ends up putting a creature card into your graveyard.
DJSeras says... Accepted answer #1
Each permanent untapping is a seperate trigger, even though you untap them all at once, so your turn would progress as such:
>Untap permanents
>8 Mesmeric Orb triggers put on stack
>Mesmeric Orb Trigger on top of the stack resolves, If the resulting milled card was a creature card then Sidisi, Brood Tyrant will trigger putting her ability onto the stack
>Sidisi trigger resolves producing a single 2/2 Zombie
>Next Mesmeric Orb trigger on top of stack resolves, if that card is a creature card then sidisi...etc... until the stack is empty.
Following this you would end up with a total of 4 2/2 Black zombie creature tokens.
November 13, 2017 1:16 p.m. Edited.