Stacking Krark's Thumb
Asked by Trockenmatt 8 years ago
Krark's Thumb states that if you would flip one coin, instead you flip 2 and ignore one. If I have, let's say, 3 Krark's Thumbs out, what would happen? I have read the Gatherer rulings, and it's kind of complicated and odd, so would someone please state it to me in simple terms? Thank you!
merrowMania says... Accepted answer #2
Like what Slycne said, they nest:
1 thumb: 2 coins, ignore one
2 thumbs: 4 coins, ignore 3
3 thumbs: 8 coins, ignore 7
n thumbs: 2n coins, ignore all but 1
Slycne says... #1
Well for starters you'd need something like Mirror Gallery to get around Krark's Thumb being legendary.
The easiest way I can state it is that replacement effects can't double up on themselves. Once one of the Krark's Thumbs is replacing an event, the next Krark's Thumb can then replace events within that event.
One Krark's Thumb makes "flip a coin" into "flip two coins ignore one". The second one makes it "flip two coins ignore one" "flip two coins ignore one" - one of each of the coin flips from the first and you still have the "ignore one" from the first Krark's Thumb replacement. Each subsequent Krark's Thumb continues this nesting behavior.
So the three Krark's Thumb would make a single "flip a coin" into...
1 - "flip two coins ignore one"
2- "flip two coins ignore one" "flip two coins ignore one" "ignore one"
3 "flip two coins ignore one" "flip two coins ignore one" "ignore one" "flip two coins ignore one" "flip two coins ignore one" "ignore one" "ignore one"
July 2, 2015 5:03 p.m. Edited.