Say I have Aurelia, the Warleader equipped with Blade of Selves, who attacks and gives me a bunch of Aurelias.
The legend rule then takes away all but one, but whatever. I keep one of the new tokens.
The question is, that token entered "attacking", but it never "attacked", which would mean when she attacks again the second combat it will be the first time she attacked this turn and I'll get a third combat, right?
And then arbitrarily many more, if I can keep equipping the blade, of course. Until I run out of opponents I guess.
Edit: Misspelled the blade. Had to look it up, actually.
That is correct. You can get a third combat this way.
Note that you will need to find a way to equip Blade of Selves without using its equip ability. Since the equip ability can only be activated whenever you could cast a sorcery, and you can't cast sorceries during combat, you will have to use something like Leonin Shikari to keep the loop going until you run out of mana or opponents, whichever comes first.
The tokens go away at end of combat, so they won't be around to attack in the newly created combat phase.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but since Aurelia says "After this PHASE, there's another combat Phase", the second Combat phase would start after the End of Combat step of the first combat phase. This means the token copy would be exiled before the second combat starts. Or am i mistaken about the rulings for the second combat phase and it start directly after the damage assignment step?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but since Aurelia says "After this PHASE, there's another combat Phase", the second Combat phase would start after the End of Combat step of the first combat phase. This means the token copy would be exiled before the second combat starts. Or am i mistaken about the rulings for the second combat phase and it start directly after the damage assignment step?
Sorry for typos, i"m on mobile.
Correct. Aurelia creates a complete combat phase (beginning of combat, declare attackers, declare blockers, combat damage, and end of combat) that begins after the regular combat phase (all 5 steps) has ended. The Blade of Selves will exile the tokens at the end of combat step and as a result they won't be around for the declare attackers step of the next combat phase.
Uh, actually, the mistake is mine. Misread Myriad. Sorry.
But otherwise the original answer holds to the question as intended, no? Namely, that the "but I never attacked" bit works even for a "the first time you attack" condition.
Yes. If it WERE still on the Field in the second combat Phase, it would be the first time it was declared as an attacker, therefore triggering aurelias ability.
No it would not. Even with Parallel lives on the battlefield all the tokens are created by the myriad ability so will get exiled at the end of the current combat phase. Long before you would get the chance to declare them as attackers in the second combat phase created by Aureilia.
The only thing adding these artifacts does is increase the amount of angels created and make it so all of them will survive the SBA checks that would apply the legend rule it does not get around the triggered ability that exiles the tokens as part of Myriad.
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The legend rule then takes away all but one, but whatever. I keep one of the new tokens.
The question is, that token entered "attacking", but it never "attacked", which would mean when she attacks again the second combat it will be the first time she attacked this turn and I'll get a third combat, right?
And then arbitrarily many more, if I can keep equipping the blade, of course. Until I run out of opponents I guess.
Edit: Misspelled the blade. Had to look it up, actually.
That is correct. You can get a third combat this way.
Note that you will need to find a way to equip Blade of Selves without using its equip ability. Since the equip ability can only be activated whenever you could cast a sorcery, and you can't cast sorceries during combat, you will have to use something like Leonin Shikari to keep the loop going until you run out of mana or opponents, whichever comes first.
The tokens go away at end of combat, so they won't be around to attack in the newly created combat phase.
Sorry for typos, i"m on mobile.
Correct. Aurelia creates a complete combat phase (beginning of combat, declare attackers, declare blockers, combat damage, and end of combat) that begins after the regular combat phase (all 5 steps) has ended. The Blade of Selves will exile the tokens at the end of combat step and as a result they won't be around for the declare attackers step of the next combat phase.
But otherwise the original answer holds to the question as intended, no? Namely, that the "but I never attacked" bit works even for a "the first time you attack" condition.
(Also, I was thinking Brass Squire)
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No it would not. Even with Parallel lives on the battlefield all the tokens are created by the myriad ability so will get exiled at the end of the current combat phase. Long before you would get the chance to declare them as attackers in the second combat phase created by Aureilia.
The only thing adding these artifacts does is increase the amount of angels created and make it so all of them will survive the SBA checks that would apply the legend rule it does not get around the triggered ability that exiles the tokens as part of Myriad.
- H.L Mencken
I Became insane with long Intervals of horrible Sanity
All Religion, my friend is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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