I've got Seance and Parallel Lives on the battlefield. At the beginning of the next upkeep, Seance triggers, and I have it target the Myr Battlesphere in my graveyard. What happens?
My current understanding is that the following occurs:
1. Seance exiles Myr Battlesphere and goes to put a "Myr Battlesphere" token onto the battlefield.
2. Parallel Lives steps in, and gets me to put two such "Myr Battlesphere" tokens onto the battlefield instead.
3. Both "Myr Battlesphere" tokens enter the battlefield, and their respective abilities trigger.
4. "Myr Battlesphere" token #1 goes to put four Myr creature tokens onto the battlefield. Parallel Lives steps in, and gives me eight Myr tokens instead.
5. "Myr Battlesphere" token #2 goes to put four Myr creature tokens onto the battlefield. Parallel Lives steps in, and gives me eight Myr tokens instead.
End result: Two "Myr Battlesphere" tokens and sixteen Myr creature tokens. At the beginning of my next end step, I exile the "Myr Battlesphere" tokens, but I otherwise keep all sixteen 1/1 Myr.
By the same logic, if I control both Seance and Parallel Lives, then choose to target a Maul Splicer in my graveyard, I would end up with a total of eight 3/3 Golem tokens.
Yes, that all works out.
Seance will exile the original tokens but doesn't do anything about the tokens created by ETB effects since Seance didn't directly create those.
A token entering the battlefield and triggering an ability that creates more tokens is two different actions and Parallel Lives will apply to both.
My current understanding is that the following occurs:
1. Seance exiles Myr Battlesphere and goes to put a "Myr Battlesphere" token onto the battlefield.
2. Parallel Lives steps in, and gets me to put two such "Myr Battlesphere" tokens onto the battlefield instead.
3. Both "Myr Battlesphere" tokens enter the battlefield, and their respective abilities trigger.
4. "Myr Battlesphere" token #1 goes to put four Myr creature tokens onto the battlefield. Parallel Lives steps in, and gives me eight Myr tokens instead.
5. "Myr Battlesphere" token #2 goes to put four Myr creature tokens onto the battlefield. Parallel Lives steps in, and gives me eight Myr tokens instead.
End result: Two "Myr Battlesphere" tokens and sixteen Myr creature tokens. At the beginning of my next end step, I exile the "Myr Battlesphere" tokens, but I otherwise keep all sixteen 1/1 Myr.
By the same logic, if I control both Seance and Parallel Lives, then choose to target a Maul Splicer in my graveyard, I would end up with a total of eight 3/3 Golem tokens.
Is the above correct?
Seance will exile the original tokens but doesn't do anything about the tokens created by ETB effects since Seance didn't directly create those.
A token entering the battlefield and triggering an ability that creates more tokens is two different actions and Parallel Lives will apply to both.
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