Multiple Combat Calligrapher

Asked by runelord 2 years ago

it's a 5 player edh game

player A: has one Combat Calligrapher

player B: has 5 Combat Calligrapher he used a kicked Rite of Replication

player C: swings one creature at player D and one creature at player E

how many inklings does player C get and who are they attacking?

My understanding is there will be six individual trigges that create one inkling each. Player C may choose for each trigger whether the inkling is attacking player D or E.

Tyrant-Thanatos says... Accepted answer #1

There's no release notes or rulings for Strix or C21 yet, and this is a new effect formatting, so take all this with a grain of salt, but based on prior similar effects:

Combat Calligrapher triggers whenever a player attacks "one" of your opponents, not "one or more", and would therefor, I believe, trigger separately for each opponent attacked. Thus, Player C would get 12 Inklings, 6 attacking Player D, and 6 attacking player E.

I'm not 100% sure on this though, and don't really have much in the way of precedent to cite, since again the wording on this trigger is new.

April 18, 2021 10:23 p.m.

runelord says... #2

my playgroup was split on the outcome you mentioned and the one I mentioned I'll be curious to see some official rulings

April 19, 2021 12:18 a.m.

Named_Tawyny says... #3

Strixhaven release notes came out on Friday. Strixhaven Release Notes

There's no specific rulings on Combat Calligrapher because there's nothing new there.

If somebody attacks multiple of your opponents, they get multiple inklings - we can see this two ways. i) it says 'one of your opponents', not 'one or more'. And ii) later in the ability it specifies '...attacking that opponent' so there's no choice of which opponent involved.

April 19, 2021 2:17 a.m.

There's no specific rulings on Combat Calligrapher because there's nothing new there.

No previous card has been printed with the "Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents" trigger condition. I wouldn't call that "nothing new". There have been cards with a "Whenever a creature attacks one of your opponents" trigger condition, but a single creature attacking multiple opponents simultaneously isn't a possible gamestate that would need any form of clarification. A player attacking more then one opponent is, on the other hand.

Obviously I agree with your logical conclusion, as it's the same as what I listed, but when answering Q&A questions I prefer to cite official material whenever possible.

April 19, 2021 2:30 a.m.

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