This has been bothering me for quite some time. Please help!
Let's suppose my opponent passes their turn to me with 3 vanilla creatures on their side of the field and I begin mine with a Strionic Resonator and a Defense Of The Heart.
Do I search my library for 3 or 4 creatures as a result of copying the enchantment's triggered ability?
Many thanks for everything that you do kind cosmic travelers.
Unless one of the three creatures gets removed prior to one of the triggered abilities resolving, you'll search for a total of up to 4 creatures. Sacrificing Defense of the Heart is part of its effect, and the rest of the effect still happens even if there is no physical Defense of the Heart permanent to sacrifice when the ability resolves. You'll search for up to 2 creatures when one instance resolves, shuffle, then search for up to 2 more creatures, then shuffle again.
Do note that the ability has an intervening if clause, meaning that if one of the opponent's creatures leaves the battlefield before one of the triggers resolves, nothing will happen. If the trigger that was resolving was the original one from the actual Defense of the Heart permanent (and not the copy), you won't sacrifice it. (If the other instance is still on the stack, it won't do anything either.)
[...]If the trigger that was resolving was the original one from the actual Defense of the Heart permanent (and not the copy), you won't sacrifice it.
That part is wrong. No matter which trigger resolves, copy or original, if the enchantment is on the battlefield under your control at that time, you have to sacrifice it. The copy is considered to have the same source as the original, therefore both refer to the same permanent.
706.10b A copy of an ability has the same source as the original ability. If the ability refers to its source by name, the copy refers to that same object and not to any other object with the same name. The copy is considered to be the same ability by effects that count how many times that ability has resolved during the turn.
[...]If the trigger that was resolving was the original one from the actual Defense of the Heart permanent (and not the copy), you won't sacrifice it.
That part is wrong. No matter which trigger resolves, copy or original, if the enchantment is on the battlefield under your control at that time, you have to sacrifice it. The copy is considered to have the same source as the original, therefore both refer to the same permanent.
Duh, I should've realized that when I was typing it out since it's a copy and all. Thanks.
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This has been bothering me for quite some time. Please help!
Let's suppose my opponent passes their turn to me with 3 vanilla creatures on their side of the field and I begin mine with a Strionic Resonator and a Defense Of The Heart.
Do I search my library for 3 or 4 creatures as a result of copying the enchantment's triggered ability?
Many thanks for everything that you do kind cosmic travelers.
Do note that the ability has an intervening if clause, meaning that if one of the opponent's creatures leaves the battlefield before one of the triggers resolves, nothing will happen.
If the trigger that was resolving was the original one from the actual Defense of the Heart permanent (and not the copy), you won't sacrifice it. (If the other instance is still on the stack, it won't do anything either.)That part is wrong. No matter which trigger resolves, copy or original, if the enchantment is on the battlefield under your control at that time, you have to sacrifice it. The copy is considered to have the same source as the original, therefore both refer to the same permanent.
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Duh, I should've realized that when I was typing it out since it's a copy and all. Thanks.