Cryptbreaker and the stack
Asked by Mairon_Bauglir 7 years ago
Hello all, I have a question about how Cryptbreaker and his second ability works. His second ability is to tap 3 untapped zombies then draw a card and lose a life. does this ability stack with multiple cryptbreakers out? Such as having 2 of them on the field and tapping 3 untapped zombies and drawing 2 cards and losing two life? Or do multiple Cryptbreakers have their own separate effect needing 3 zombies for each cryptbreaker on the field?
Cryptbreaker's second ability is an activated ability. The cost to activate the ability is to tap three untapped zombies. Tapping three zombies does not pay for any other activations unless the ability is a triggered ability that reads something like "whenever you tap three zombies...". This means you would have to tap three untapped zombies to activate the ability for each Cryptbreaker.
Note that having multiple Cryptbreakers is redundant in regards to the second ability. You may activate the second ability from the same Cryptbreaker as many times as you would like, as long as you have enough untapped zombies.
Derpachus says... #1
The latter is correct. They are separate effects. You will need to tap 6 zombies to draw 2 and lose 2
January 15, 2017 5:17 p.m.