A friend says that tokens can't trigger an effect caused by "whenever a creature you control dies", as in grave pact
I suppose that isn't correct because there are cards that say "whenever a nontoken creature you control dies", as in blight mound. Why would there otherwise be these 2 different descriptions?
I know that tokens can't stay in graveyards. But I think that they do enter graveyards when they are destroyed on the battlefield, they just disappear after entering a graveyard. Which means they do trigger an effect caused by "whenever a creature you control dies".
Correct?
You are correct. Tokens go to any zone they are sent to from the battlefield. Once they leave the battlefield, they can't leave the zone they enter, though, and state based actions will make them cease to exist the next time a player would receive priority. But since "dies" means "to go to the graveyard from the battlefield", and a token certainly can do that, any "dies" triggers concerned about tzhat token will go off. Wether that trigger can actually do anything when it resolves, depends on the trigger's effect(s). For example, they can't move a token to anywhere both because it couldn't leave its new zone and because it doesn't exist anymore.
I suppose that isn't correct because there are cards that say "whenever a nontoken creature you control dies", as in blight mound. Why would there otherwise be these 2 different descriptions?
I know that tokens can't stay in graveyards. But I think that they do enter graveyards when they are destroyed on the battlefield, they just disappear after entering a graveyard. Which means they do trigger an effect caused by "whenever a creature you control dies".
Correct?
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