The Locust God card drawing trigger
Asked by ticked-off-squirrel 6 years ago
it says "whenever i draw a card" so i am just making sure, but if i draw several cards at once (with say Trial of Knowledge which has me draw 3 cards) do i create several locust tokens or only 1?
ticked-off-squirrel says... #2
TheVectornaut ok. thank you. i just wanted to make sure before i start making a deck around it.
December 11, 2017 5:49 p.m.
TheVectornaut says... #3
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TheVectornaut says... Accepted answer #1
"Whenever you draw a card" means the ability will trigger for every card drawn. Drawing a card is a singular event, so drawing multiple cards just causes that event to occur multiple times, thus causing multiple triggers. I imagine the confusion exists because there are other instances where things seem to work differently. Ajani's Pridemate, for example, will only get one +1/+1 counter, regardless of how much life is gained at once. The difference is that the event that causes the trigger doesn't specify a value. "Life" can be any amount of life while "a card" can only mean one card. To get a result where only one token is produced from drawing multiple cards, you'd need some awkward phrasing like "whenever you draw one or more cards", and I don't even think that would work because of the rules on drawing I hinted at earlier:
"120.2. Cards may only be drawn one at a time. If a player is instructed to draw multiple cards, that player performs that many individual card draws." So even if an ability was created that triggered off of multiple cards being drawn, the requirement that you draw each card individually would stop it from working.
Long story short, Trial of Knowledge gets you three insects.
December 11, 2017 2:28 a.m. Edited.