How does Charbelcher work?

Asked by AidanOlson 8 years ago

How exactly does charbelcher work? Were ever I go, it says that if you combo into belcher, and there is about 52 cards in your deck, than two things can happen1: If there is a Taiga deck, your opponent can get to -79! or 2: If there isn't a taiga in your deck, you deal damage equal to the number of cards in your deck. (52) How does this happen? What makes having Taiga in your deck at the time you combo off deal more than if you didn't?

BlueScope says... Accepted answer #1

Please link all cards relevant to your question: Goblin Charbelcher, Taiga

Taiga on it's own doesn't interact with Goblin Charbelcher in any other way than other Mountains, in that it doubles the damage if the revealed card is a mountain (which Taiga is, as Charbelcher looks at the subtype, not the card name, in case that's what you were wondering).

The only situation where what you say would be relevant is one deck with only non-land mana sources except for a single Taiga, where the other deck has no lands but a single non-Mountain land, but even then, the maximum damage you could deal with a Taiga in the deck would be 102 (and with only a non-Mountain, it'd be 51, not 52, as Charbelcher only deals damage equal to nonland cards that have been revealed).

So yeah, you either must be talking about a specific situation, or there were other cards involved.

May 25, 2016 2:10 a.m.