How do multiple tokens created by the same trigger enter the battlefield?
Asked by theR3AP3RMAN 7 years ago
In a recent playtest of one of my decks, Simic Dork Devourer, I encountered a situation in which I had a 5/4 Renegade Krasis, a 4/6 Master Biomancer and a 15/15 Mycoloth. The Mycoloth generated 12 saproling tokens at the beginning of my upkeep. My understanding from here is that each token enters the battlefield with 4 +1/+1 counters due to Master Biomancer. That is enough to trigger the evolution of Renegade Krasis. Do the Tokens all enter at once as 5/5s and trigger evolve making them 6/6s, or do they enter individually; the first token enters as a 5/5 and triggers evolve causing Master Biomancer to become a 5/7 meaning the next token would enter as a 6/6 again triggering evolve causing Master Biomancer to go up to 6/8 and so on until all the tokens enter the battlefield? Do the tokens enter seperately or all at once?
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And do not forget that you will also get the 27/27 Mycoloth who will do this again next turn, except it will create 27 tokens that will each have 41 counters on them.
Raging_Squiggle says... Accepted answer #1
All the tokens enter simultaneously with 4 +1/+1 counters. The evolve ability triggers for each token entered.
Each evolve trigger will resolve one at a time, putting a counter on the Krasis. As long as a token's P or T is higher than the corresponding ability it triggered, it will put a counter on the evolve creature.
Example: 3 3/3 creatures enter, triggering Experiment One three times. The first evolve resolves, making Experiment One a 2/2. The second trigger goes to resolve, and sees the token still has a higher P//T, making him a 3/3. The final trigger resolves, but sees the creature that triggered it has neither P/T higher than that of Experiment One, leaving him as a 3/3.
This example is a very similar scenario as yours.
The first of 12 triggers resolves, evolving the 5/4 Krasis due to the 5/5 tokens having a higher P//T. This makes it a 6/5 and triggers Renegade Krasis's second ability, putting a counter on all your other creatures, making the tokens 6/6, And the Biomancer a 5/7.
The second evolve resolves, And sees the tokens still have a higher P//T than Krasis, making him now a 7/6, triggering his second ability again and making your tokens 7/7's. See the pattern? It will keep going until all triggers have resolved and you will end up with 12 17/17's, a 17/16 Krasis, and a 16/18 Biomancer.
June 30, 2016 11:16 p.m.