Two Krark's Thumb
Asked by daniferrito 11 years ago
I have two Krark's Thumb on the battlefield plus a Mirror Gallery so they can coexist together. What happens when something tells me to flip a coin? I see a few possibilities:
One replacement effect takes place, making me flip two coins, then the other one will make that four. I can choose any of the four results. Probably not this one, but it is the first one i thought of.
One replacement effect takes place, the other one sees there is nothing else to replace and does nothing. Basically, like if i just had one of the thumbs.
Like the second one, but after the first replacement effect took place, the other thumb replaces each flip with two more, then the first thumb does the same with the now four flips, and the game is a draw because it cannot advance.
daniferrito says... #2
First one it is, then. Makes sense now. That makes fliping coins a lot in my favor.
If my math doesent fail me, it turn the 50% chance of geting what i want with no Thumb out to a 75% chance with one Thumb, to a 93% chance with two of them, and a 99.6% chance with three of them, to a 99.999995% with four of them, and having to flip 16 times as much coins.
Also, for effects that care about won flips (Chance Encounter ), only the final flip (the one i decide to keep) will count, right?
January 30, 2014 11:10 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
Correct. You ignore one flip, so Chance Encounter only sees one flip, regardless of how many replacement flips you do.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
The first effect will replace the original flip with two flips. The second effect will replace each of those two flips with two more flips.
Remember that a replacement effect can only apply to a situation one time. If you apply RE1 and then RE2, RE1 can't be reapplied to the event, even though RE2 changed it.
It basically progresses like this:
flip
(flip) or (flip)
(flip or flip) or (flip or flip)
January 30, 2014 10:43 p.m.