Okay so I am reading Kiora, Master of the Depths' ultimate and realize you get octopi when you have a creature enter. Now my question is, When I do this, do they have to fight for me to get another 3 tokens? Does it trigger for each octopus or does it trigger once since all three octopi enter at the same time. (It seems like an ability that is a mandatory infinite combo meaning the game cannot progress)
You're actually misreading the ability (don't worry, you're far from being the only one, this precise confusion is frequent with that ability's wording). It's the loyalty ability itself that creates the 3 tokens and it does it only once, as it resolves, after creating the emblem. The emblem's text is only what's within the quotation marks: "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." So the emblem is created, then the tokens are created and trigger the emblem.
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You're actually misreading the ability (don't worry, you're far from being the only one, this precise confusion is frequent with that ability's wording). It's the loyalty ability itself that creates the 3 tokens and it does it only once, as it resolves, after creating the emblem. The emblem's text is only what's within the quotation marks: "Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may have it fight target creature." So the emblem is created, then the tokens are created and trigger the emblem.
OH, well then i don;t really want her in my deck. While it is not a bad ability, my EDH deck does not run enough creatures for it to be worth while. (i mean sure I have tons of token generation via other PWs, but they are like 1/1s not exactly something that can take on 5/5s)
Then again 3 octopi is pretty good, and since i will be running Doubling Season and possibly copying that with Copy enchnatment, I could be getting potentially 24 8/8s in a single turn.
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OH, well then i don;t really want her in my deck. While it is not a bad ability, my EDH deck does not run enough creatures for it to be worth while. (i mean sure I have tons of token generation via other PWs, but they are like 1/1s not exactly something that can take on 5/5s)
Then again 3 octopi is pretty good, and since i will be running Doubling Season and possibly copying that with Copy enchnatment, I could be getting potentially 24 8/8s in a single turn.
UB Vela the Night-Clad BUDecklist
WBG Ghave, Guru of Spores GBW
WUBRGThe Ur-DragonWUBRGDecklist