Parralax Tide in combination with Princess Yue and clones: Would all effects trigger at the same time?
Asked by ContraMundi 5 days ago
Hi,
let's say I have a Princess Yue on the field and 5 moon lands, which are all Clones like Clever Impersonator for example. There is also a Ruin Crab on the field.
I then play Parallax Tide remove all 5 counters to exile all 5 clone moon lands. Then Parallax Tide leaves the battlefield and all 5 clone moon lands return at the same time.
The way I understand it the clones return as the original clones and not as moon lands.
Then clones then all copy Princess Yue again and die to the legendary rune. This still happens at the same time as far as I understand it.
Now my question is: When the clones return from the princess Yue die trigger and return as moon lands to copy the Ruin Crab on the field, do they return at the same time seeing each other enter or one after another?
Because that would make a big difference in how many cards I mill my opponents for.
All at the same time: 6 Ruin Crabs on the Field & 5 lands entering = 90 cards milled
One after another: = 60 cards milled
Thank you for your answers. Building Princess Yue ain't easy :D
Neotrup is correct about the triggers going one at a time, but you also have the issue that all of these clones are legendary lands named Moon (note the "she's still legendary) in the reminder text) and so four of them would have been sacrificed already as state-based actions. Avoiding this with effects like Mirror Gallery to dodge the legend rule breaks the combo anyway, so the best you can do is play your clones out one at a time and have them die and become Moons one at a time.
You also can't have them enter as Moon lands and as Ruin Crabs, it has to be one or the other. The triggered ability will bring them back as Moon lands, but since they still have the Clever Impersonator copy ability, you can choose to have them enter as Ruin Crabs instead, but they cannot be both.
December 14, 2025 11:02 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Polaris: The copy effect of Clever Impersonator is applied in layer 1 but the name, type, and ability-changing effects of the Princess Yue reanimation ability are applied in later layers. The Impersonators will all end up as Moon-ified versions of whatever they're copying.
And the reanimation effect doesn't make them legendary. That reminder text on Princess Yue is a reminder that the reanimation effect doesn't change her supertype.
Neotrup says... #1
All 5 Princess Yue die at the same time, and thus trigger at the same time, but each trigger is added to the stack separately and resolve one at a time. In short, you'd end up milling 60 cards with the original Ruin Crab and the 5 land copies.
December 11, 2025 7:40 p.m.