What happens with multiple copies of Illusory gains?
Asked by Aftertherevolution 7 years ago
Just curious if it's worth having more than one on the board. So say I cast Illusory Gains and target Augury Owl. And b/c it's late in the game I cast a second Illusory Gains targeting Emeria Angel.
All good.
But then next opponents round they cast Mist Raven.
It trigger both the Illusory Gains. Do they both attach to Mist Raven? My guess is yes. Ie. It entered under the opponents control... and nothing says they can't both be on it.
Or on the stack, does the loss of control after the first Illusory Gains resolves and re-attaches, mean that the second Illusory Gains doesn't attach to Mist Raven?
If this is the case, then I assume you can decide which Illusory Gains resolves first, and then leap frog them on creatures.
But I do think the first result is likely ie. both attach to Mist Raven
Thoughts?
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
They both attach.
Illusory Gains only checks control at the time the ability triggers. Once the ability is on the stack, it no longer cares who controls the creature; it'll still attach Illusory Gains even if you already gained control of that creature.
In order for the ability to check control a second time, it would need to have an intervening "if" clause, which gets checked both at triggering and on resolution.
For example: "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if you don't control it, attach ~ to it."
Such an ability would only trigger if someone else controlled the creature as it entered, and it would only attach Illusory Gains on resolution if you didn't already control the creature at that time.
July 7, 2016 12:02 p.m.