Question About Ezuri's Predation
Asked by theindigoeffect 2 years ago
I have the aforesaid card in my Tovolar, Dire Overlord Flip deck, but I don't know how effective a board wipe it is because I've never seen it resolve.
I understand that all the fights take place at the same time, so does that mean that Ezuri's Predation can only kill creatures with toughness 4 or less?
Otherwise, if each 4/4 token is fighting each creature under my opponents' control, I don't understand how these fights can take place at the same time, since that would imply that these fights take place in a sequence.
The fights all happen together. No creatures die and no triggered abilities go on the stack until after you've created the Beast tokens and they've all fought things.
The fights happen as the card says. Each Beast gets paired with a different opponent's creature, then each pair fights. There's no fighting with multiple creatures, so if all you're doing is casting Ezuri's Predation with no other setup, you'll only kill 4 toughness or less creatures.
However, there are multiple ways you can increase the effectiveness of the spell with static effects. Beastmaster Ascension with seven quest counters will apply +5/+5 to all your creatures including the entering Beasts, making them 9/9s that will kill a lot more stuff. Archetype of Finality will have them enter with deathtouch, which means they'll kill everything that doesn't have indestructible. Eldrazi Monument will make them 5/5s with indestructible, so they'll at least survive fights with larger creatures, and so on.
You can also use Parallel Lives or similar to get more Beasts. Notably, the rulings cover this situation by pointing out that if you have more Beasts than opponents' creatures because of an effect like this, some of them won't have a "different creature" to fight, so the extra Beasts just won't fight anything.
January 10, 2022 1:31 p.m.
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DragonWolf420 says... #1
each beast fights a "different" creature. so you would only be able to kill creatures with 4 or less toughness.
January 10, 2022 12:05 p.m.