Can Dhelney make Welcoming Vampire trigger again?

Asked by JoltsOfEnergy 4 months ago

Here's a question regarding Welcoming Vampire.

If I have a Delney, Streetwise Lookout, will Welcoming Vampire trigger an additional time when I play a creature with power 2 or less? It doesn't say Delney copies this ability, rather it triggers an additional time. And Welcoming Vampire says it triggers only once each turn. How does this interaction work?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

The Vampire's ability will just trigger once. This is due to the following rule:

603.2d An ability may state that a triggered ability triggers additional times. In this case, rather than simply determining that such an ability has triggered, determine how many times it should trigger, then that ability triggers that many times. An effect that states that an ability triggers additional times doesn’t invoke itself repeatedly and doesn’t apply to other effects that affect how many times an ability triggers.

The important part here is "determine how many times it should trigger". Since Welcoming Vampire specifically says it only triggers once per turn, Delney's effect can't make it trigger additional times.

February 7, 2024 11:27 a.m.