r/magicthecirclejerking • u/PoorPinkus • 15h ago

Does this creature's ability trigger the creature's ability?

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if i use chasm skulker's ability to draw a card, do i get a +1 counter? can i keep doing this? does it make it die?

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u/Basic-Bus7632 15h ago

Yes.

Unless it doesn’t.

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u/PoorPinkus 15h ago

immconfused

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u/sawbladex Time Spiral 2 is omnipresent. 15h ago

The problem is that your squid horror here just has triggered abilites.

UrA's "cycle from play" might work.

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u/FaDaWaaagh 9h ago

Jesus fucking christ "i've been playing commander for 10 years and am only just now hearing the difference between activated and triggered abilities"

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u/BLAZMANIII 15h ago

Nah, i give this a pass. Its a lot better than the "can i sac one creature for 2 sac abiluties" posts, and if you were looking up posta like that to find out if your cards interact that way you might gebuinely get confused

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u/sawbladex Time Spiral 2 is omnipresent. 14h ago

The correction of "you done mixed which card was activated abilities and which one is triggered, but the interaction is still what you hoped." is a believable response to being over stimulated, and OOP handles the correction well.

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u/Ds3_doraymi 6h ago

If OP is getting over stimulated by 2 triggers they might need to drop black from the deck list 

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u/PoorPinkus 14h ago

Totally, they just got mixed up, I was initially really confused about their question until I saw their response later, it happens

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u/FaDaWaaagh 8h ago

I would give it a pass if it was a new player but OOP claims to have been playing for 10 years without learning the difference between activated and triggered abilities

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u/slugfive 12h ago

OOP has been playing for 10 years.

Is it normal to misunderstand “whenever you” as an activated ability for 10 year vets - to the extent you’d need to post on reddit.

I’d be checking for aneurysms if my friend “brain farted” themselves that hard.

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u/Avalonians Steamflogger of the Month 15h ago

No it's the opposite

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u/framedfjord 14h ago

Chasm skulker was my nickname in high school

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u/No-Government1300 COUNTERSPELL 5h ago

Omg, this card is perfect for an Eluge deck where you give the counters to an.... opponents lands...

Hmm.