Abilities on noncreature cards
Asked by Omniscience_is_life 3 years ago
It recently came up in a game that I had Strionic Resonator in play, a 5/5 Hallar, the Firefletcher , and a Hunter's Insight in hand. I wanted to draw 10 cards, but wasn't sure if I could. Now, I know that triggered abilities are ones that use the words "when", "whenever", or "at"--but does the "whenever" posed in Insight's text make it a triggered ability? (The underlying question here is: can noncreature cards have triggered abilities?)
Thanks!
Warriors' Lesson is a bad example. Benefactor's Draught is better.
April 24, 2021 2:44 p.m.
Raging_Squiggle says... #3
Hunter's Insight does not itself have a triggered ability. It has an effect that sets up a delayed triggered ability, and that ability is not given to the creature. (This is important for effects like Turn to Frog , as you would still draw cards should the creature be frogged).
Rather, it just sits around waiting until the end of the turn to trigger should the targeted creature deal combat damage.
Strionic Resonator can certainly copy the delayed triggered ability should the creature deal combat damage, and it will copy everything about the ability, including the amount of damage dealt. So if 5 damage is dealt, the copy will draw you 5 cards as well.
legendofa says... Accepted answer #1
Hunter's Insight does have a triggered ability. Pretty much every instant and sorcery that has a triggered ability also has a time limit for that triggering, usually end of turn--check out the "this turn" note on Hunter's Insight or "Until end of turn" on Warriors' Lesson . Some are triggered from the graveyard, like Spit Flame .
As a little special bonus, the rules can even handle instant and sorceries with activated abilities. As far as I know, that only shows up on Lightning Storm .
April 24, 2021 2:42 p.m.