I remember hearing something once about cards being drawn "one at a time." Bonus gratitude points if someone knows what I'm talking about and can clarify what that rule means.
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You do draw cards one at a time, so you will get 3 Psychosis Crawler triggers. These abilities will do nothing other than sit there on the stack as you attempt to draw your nonexistent 4th card from your library and you lose, sadly.
As far as what drawing cards one at a time means, when you cast Opportunity, the games reads "Draw 4 cards" as "Draw a card. Draw a card. Draw a card. Draw a card.", and so any triggers/replacements of drawing a single card will happen individually for each card draw.
You lose. Cards are drawn one at a time, but the four triggers from Psychosis Crawler go on the stack one at a time after the spell has fully resolved and state-based actions are checked.
But since you tried to draw from an empty library, you lose as a state-based action, before the Crawler triggers can even go on the stack.
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Went to a new shop from a friend's recommendation, DQ'ed for willful violation of CR 100.6b.
Brief explanation: Psychosis Crawler has a triggered ability. That ability has to be put on the stack and resolve in order for your opponent to lose life, and you die long before that can happen.
Detailed explanation: When Opportunity resolves, the game instructs you to draw 4 cards. You do draw them one at a time, but all of this happens during the resolution of Opportunity. After you draw the 3rd card, you have no cards in your library. When you draw the 4th card, you can't, because you have no cards in your library. Then Opportunity is done resolving.
At this point, state-based actions are performed, and you lose the game.
After that, the triggered abilities of Psychosis Crawler would be put on the stack, except that the game is already over.
My library: 3 cards.
My opponent's life total: 2 life.
I have Psychosis Crawler in play and cast Opportunity targeting myself.
Do I win? Does my opponent win? Do we draw?
I remember hearing something once about cards being drawn "one at a time." Bonus gratitude points if someone knows what I'm talking about and can clarify what that rule means.
As far as what drawing cards one at a time means, when you cast Opportunity, the games reads "Draw 4 cards" as "Draw a card. Draw a card. Draw a card. Draw a card.", and so any triggers/replacements of drawing a single card will happen individually for each card draw.
But since you tried to draw from an empty library, you lose as a state-based action, before the Crawler triggers can even go on the stack.
Went to a new shop from a friend's recommendation, DQ'ed for willful violation of CR 100.6b.
Have played duals? I have PucaPoints for them!
(Credit to DarkNightCavalier)
$tandard: Too poor.
Modern:
- GW Birthing Pod(?)
Legacy:
- UWR Delver
Brief explanation: Psychosis Crawler has a triggered ability. That ability has to be put on the stack and resolve in order for your opponent to lose life, and you die long before that can happen.
Detailed explanation: When Opportunity resolves, the game instructs you to draw 4 cards. You do draw them one at a time, but all of this happens during the resolution of Opportunity. After you draw the 3rd card, you have no cards in your library. When you draw the 4th card, you can't, because you have no cards in your library. Then Opportunity is done resolving.
At this point, state-based actions are performed, and you lose the game.
After that, the triggered abilities of Psychosis Crawler would be put on the stack, except that the game is already over.
...I really should have been able to figure that one out on my own. Ah well! Thanks guys!