I heard about this story where this guy had two chains of mephistopheles out on the field at the same time and this judge had to draw a giant diagram on how the effect would work. Does anyone have a link to the diagram?
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Wouldn't you just; discard X cards, where X is your hand size, Mill 1 Card?
Pretty sure you just choose a chains to be the replacement for the first draw, it forces a discard, on your draw from that chains the other replaces it, so you discard again....this continues until you're out of cards in hand, the last replacement mills your top card.
Wouldn't you just; discard X cards, where X is your hand size, Mill 1 Card?
Pretty sure you just choose a chains to be the replacement for the first draw, it forces a discard, on your draw from that chains the other replaces it, so you discard again....this continues until you're out of cards in hand, the last replacement mills your top card.
Nope. Each replacement effect only applies to the event of drawing a card once, even if another replacement effect affected the same event (CR 614.5). With two Chains on board, there are three scenarios that can happen whenever you draw a card other than your usual draw for the turn. First scenario: you have no cards in hand. You can't discard a card for the replacement effect from Chains 1, so you mill one card and the replacement effect from Chains 2 never happens. Second scenario: you have one card in hand. Chains 1 makes you discard that card, then draw another. Chains 2 replaces the draw from Chains 1 and you can't discard a card, so you mill one. End effect, one card discarded and one milled. Third scenario: you have two or more cards in hand. Chains 1 makes you discard a card, then draw. Chains 2 replaces the draw with another discard, then draw. End effect, two cards discarded, then one card drawn.
I don't have the diagram that the OP is asking for. There are a couple flowcharts floating around for how Chains works, though I don't think I've seen any for multiple Chains.
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2. Improving Green Archetypes
3. Improving White Archetypes
4. Matchup Analysis
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Pretty sure you just choose a chains to be the replacement for the first draw, it forces a discard, on your draw from that chains the other replaces it, so you discard again....this continues until you're out of cards in hand, the last replacement mills your top card.
I don't have the diagram that the OP is asking for. There are a couple flowcharts floating around for how Chains works, though I don't think I've seen any for multiple Chains.