Spike feeder rulings
Asked by Hankmc 6 years ago
Played last night had Spike Feeder with Sunbond opponent claims not infinite cycle believes gaining 2 life is a result of paying 2 and moving counter not its own action
Thank you he was under the impression that Spike Feeder only had two abilities
December 8, 2017 10:17 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
The line break in-between the 2nd and 3rd abilities on Spike Feeder indicates they're completely separate abilities. The 3rd ability is an activated ability, with the cost "Remove a +1/+1 counter from Spike Feeder". It's not a triggered ability that triggers from activating the previous one (a triggered ability would be written to start with "when/whenever/at").
acbooster says... Accepted answer #1
If you use Spike Feeder's third ability to gain life, then it goes infinite with Sunbond.
Let's say it has two counters on it. You remove one and gain two life. Sunbond triggers. Since you gained two life, you put two counters back on it, putting it up to three. You can repeat this process as many times as you like.
The wording of the question is a bit odd, but I think the disconnect for your friend is that the Feeder's second ability requires two generic mana to use, even though the third doesn't require any mana.
December 8, 2017 8:20 a.m.