Undead Alchemist x 2
Asked by Runngun 13 years ago
Board is 2 Undead Alchemist One swings and makes contact.
Question is regarding the first effect; 4 or 8
Conversly, if a creature card was milled.. you would get two zombie tokens as opposed to 1 since there are two Alchemists to trigger.
February 16, 2012 5:38 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
That's right, the zombie making ability is triggered (starts with "when", "whenever", or "at"), so it works differently from the replacement effect ability. Both will trigger for every creature card milled.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Undead Alchemist
's milling ability is a replacement effect - you can tell because it uses the word "instead". A replacement effect can only replace the type of event it describes, and Alchemist's effect replaces a "combat damage from a zombie" event. When the first Alchemist's effect replaces the damage with milling, there's no more damage event for the second Alchemist's effect to replace, so it doesn't do anything, and only 4 cards are milled.
February 15, 2012 5:05 p.m.