Nekusar+harmonic prodigy
Asked by Bordin 2 years ago
With both Nekusar, the Mindrazer and Harmonic Prodigy on my board, when an opponent goes to the draw step, does the first Nekusar´s ability triggers an adittional time, or only the second? Drawing three cards and losing six life, instead of two cards and four life.
Minor technical correction to the above answer (as the answer is functionally correct). Drawing a card for the turn is a turn-based action. As such, it is the first thing that happens when the Draw Step begins (it also doesn't use the stack), and then triggers that say "At the beginning of the draw step" and "Whenever a player draws a card" are handled. Net result is still that they will draw three cards and take six damage, just wanted to clarify which order it happens in. Draw for turn, stack triggers of two instances of Nekusar's damage trigger and two instances of additional draw triggers. After each additional draw trigger resolves, The damage trigger will go on the stack twice more as the top items of the stack.
October 15, 2021 10:33 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Bordin: Answers to your question have been up for a while. I chose one to mark as the "Accepted answer" so this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. In the future you can take care of this yourself using the "Mark as Answer" button on the response that you feel best answers your question.
Omniscience_is_life says... #1
Harmonic Prodigy copies all triggered abilities (from Wizards and Shamans); a triggered ability is one that used either the word "when", "whenever", or "at". Thus both of Nekusar's abilities are of the triggered sort, and they will both be copied.
So when you opponent moves to their draw step, they will draw two additional cards from Nekusar, the Mindrazer + Harmonic Prodigy, which will deal four damage to them, and then they will draw their card for turn, dealing 2 more to them. 6 damage total.
Also, in the future, the "Rules Q&A" section at the top of the page is where these sort of questions should go. Thanks!
October 14, 2021 1:11 p.m.