Multiple Triggers- Redundant?
Asked by hiddengibbons 12 years ago
Sorry if this is too big, this is one question with three parts:Lord of the Void - If 4 of them deal combat damage to my opponent, does he/she exile the top 28 cards and I choose up to 4 creatures to put onto the battlefield under my control?
Consuming Aberration - If theres more than one, does the ability trigger for each one when I cast a spell?
Trepanation Blade - Multiples
They won't exile 28 and then you choose 4, they will exile 7 and then you will choose one. Then you will repeat the process 3 more times. Each one needs to be performed separately.
The same is true for the other abilities you listed. If you have 2 Consuming Aberration on the battlefield, when you cast a spell each of them would put their ability on the stack. Then they would each resolve separately.
With 2 Trepanation Blade on the same creature both will trigger and the ability will be performed twice adding the +1/+0 for each ability to the creature. If they are on separate creatures you need to decide which of the two equipments ability is resolving first. One of the abilities will effect one creature and the other ability the other creature.
Essentially, you are right on all accounts you just have to make sure that each ability is resolved separately.
February 11, 2013 3:05 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Multiple instances of a triggered ability will all trigger if the appropriate event happens. In your examples, each Lord of the Void will trigger when it deals combat damage to an opponent (but just for itself, not for other Lords), each Consuming Aberration will trigger when you cast a spell, and each Trepanation Blade will trigger when the creature it's equipping attacks.
It's important to note that each triggered ability triggers separately from the others and you resolve them separately from each other, meaning you don't add them all up and resolve one big version of the effect. For the Lords of the Void, you don't exile 28 and then choose 4 creatures from the whole group. You exile 7 and choose 1 creature from that group, exile another 7 and choose 1 creature from that group, and so on. Likewise for the multiple Aberrations and Blades.
Remula says... #1
Yes, yes, and yes. Multiple permanents the same trigger will put their multiple instances of the same trigger on the stack. If you somehow manage to get 4 Lord of the Void s out and hit with all 4 of them, well good on you. You deserve to mill them for 28.
February 11, 2013 2:41 p.m.