1000 copies of Kairi, the Swirling Sky + Death triggers
Asked by CardboardSalad 1 year ago
I run a dragon clone deck, and an interesting interaction came up recently.
This was specifically regarding Kairi, the Swirling Sky, but could apply to any creature with mandatory death triggers.
If I have 1000 copies of Kairi, and an opponent board wipes, how do the triggers work?
For Kairi, I have the option of bouncing targets, or milling myself. My question is if I don't want to deck myself out, but I have no valid targets to select, do I have to choose the mill option?
My understanding was when all the triggers go onto the stack at the same time, I can select the option, and if I choose the target option, I select the targets when the trigger goes onto the stack. If I do this for every trigger, I could select the same targets 1000 times, and after the first resolves, the remaining items on the stack would just disappear because they no longer have legal targets.
Is this correct, or do all the "select mode" triggers go onto the stack, and then I have to make a selection for each resolving, which then that trigger immediately goes onto the stack?
You are correct that you can choose the same targets for each Kairi, the Swirling Sky trigger and the ability simply fail to resolve rather than force you into the other mode (and you won't be able to choose the other mode after the trigger is added to the stack). As veritablecvn pointedd out you are also free to choose the first mode with 0 targets, even if there were not creatures to return.
March 19, 2023 5:57 p.m.
CardboardSalad says... #3
Thanks! It didn't occur to me that any number included zero.
veritablecvn says... Accepted answer #1
You can choose zero as the number of non-land permanents to return to their owner's hand.
From the Comprehensive Rules: 107.1c If a rule or ability instructs a player to choose “any number,” that player may choose any positive number or zero.
March 19, 2023 2:07 p.m.