Attacking multiple opponents triggers regarding the keyword myriad. (Breena, the Demagogue + Blade of Selves)
Asked by StopShot 3 years ago
Cards used: Breena, the Demagogue & Blade of Selves
Background: I'm playing a multiplayer game with three opponents. One opponent has 20 life, another has 30 life and the third one has 40 life. On the field I have Breena, the Demagogue who is equipped with Blade of Selves .
Question on rules interaction: It is my turn, and I have Breena, equipped with the Blade, attack the opponent with 20 life; the opponent with the lowest life total. Doing so doesn't cause Breena's own ability to trigger, however; the Myriad ability given by the Blade triggers and I put two tokens of Breena on the field both attacking the opponent with 30 life and the opponent with 40 life.
Because the original Breena sees I'm attacking two opponents, both with more life than the opponent with 20 life, her ability triggers twice. The token Breena attacking the opponent with 30 life sees that itself and the other token Breena is attacking two opponents with life totals greater than the opponent with 20 life, so that token's ability triggers twice. The other token Breena attacking the opponent with 40 life sees itself and the other token Breena attacking two opponents with life totals greater than the opponent with 20 life, so that token's ability triggers twice as well. In short, Breena's ability effectively triggers six times resulting in me drawing six cards and distributing twelve +1/+1 counters among creatures I control. Of course these triggers will resolve after the legend rule causes me to sacrifice the two of the Breenas.
Would this interaction take place or would none of the Breenas' ability-triggers take place because I didn't declare the tokens as attackers during the start of the attack step?
(I'm a aware there is a literal myriad of posts on rules interactions regarding Blade of Selves , but I made this post as this is the first time a creature has been printed with "Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents," and I wanted to know if this line of text means anything different regarding to how it potentially triggers under myriad.)
@Neotrup, thank you. As a follow up question do you know if there is any difference between: "Whenever a player attacks one of your opponents," & "Whenever one or more creatures attacks one of your opponents,"?
Players themselves don't really attack their opponents so much as it's their creatures that do the attacking. I'm wondering if there's any significance to wording the text that way.
March 28, 2021 2:49 p.m.
Uts just a difference in templating that makes it easier to reference the player instead of the creatures. Currently all cards that use the format say "with one or more creatures" but may receive errata to shorten the text when strixhaven is release.
Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1
None of the abilities trigger because you only declared an attack on the opponent with the lowest life.
March 28, 2021 2:35 p.m.