Rona, Herald of Invasion Flip with Pariah's Shield against Pestilence
Asked by koylucumert 5 months ago
so if rona's backside is holding the shield, when I activate pestilence will it trigger once or twice? because I have one effect that deals 2 separate instances of damage to that creature (one to it, and a second redirected from me to it)
koylucumert says... #2
wallisface so I assume if my opponent casted Fiery Confluence choosing to deal one damage to each creature three times, it also will only work once. or is that different somehow?
January 2, 2024 4 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Fiery Confluence is different. If the caster chooses the first mode 3 times, what they'll get is an effect that says "Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature. Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature. Fiery Confluence deals 1 damage to each creature." These are 3 separate damage events and will cause Rona, Tolarian Obliterator Flip's ability to trigger 3 times.
January 2, 2024 12:32 p.m.
wallisface says... #4
koylucumert yeah Rhadamanthus beat me to it with that Fiery Confluence answer. Essentially if the damage events are separated by a full-stop, then they’ll trigger Rona additional times. That should always be the case with mode-cards like this (if the damage is being done from different instances of a mode).
wallisface says... Accepted answer #1
Pariah's Shield is a replacement effect that doesn’t use the stack, so the damage put onto Rona will all be received at once, and as such she’ll only trigger once per Pestilence activation.
January 2, 2024 3:54 a.m.