Equipping against a certain death

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So,
another situation arises:

A WW player has Lightning Greaves in play, a few creatures and the Leonin
Shikari.
The hopeful T&N player casts his ace, fetches Triskelion and the Vampire.

Can the Triskelion kill all of the WW player's creatures, or the shikari
protects them forever?


Thanx in advance,


G.

 

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Griffis <griffis@spamoff.com> wrote:
>another situation arises:
>
>A WW player has Lightning Greaves in play, a few creatures and the Leonin
>Shikari.
>The hopeful T&N player casts his ace, fetches Triskelion and the Vampire.
>
>Can the Triskelion kill all of the WW player's creatures, or the shikari
>protects them forever?

The Greaves can only BE on one creature at a time. If the Greaves are not
on a creature when a Triskelion ability targetting the creature tries to
resolve, then the ability will resolve and deal damage; having the Greaves
move onto the creature, then off again, while the Triskit ability is waiting
on the stack to resolve won't do anything much.

"The Vampire"? There are twelve different Vampires in Magic... Do you mean one
that works well with Triskelion, say, Mephidross Vampire? If so, you'd
probably be better off saying so, rather than hoping someone reading your
question can work out which of the twelve you're talking about.

The Greaves' player isn't psychic - but he has an advantage here. The Trisk
can shoot a creature, but the Greaves player can move the Greaves in response
to the Trisk ability. The Trisk can shoot another creature in response, but
the Greaves can move in response to THAT ... and then, after that ability gets
countered, can move back to protect the first creature. The Trisk doesn't get
any new counters from the Mephidross-granted ability unless its ability
resolves and actually deals damage; a countered Trisk ability means no damage
and no new counter.

Thus, the Greaves' controller has the advantage and can keep all of the Trisk
abilities from resolving.

Dave
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[Maz]

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The WW Player can always respond to the Triskelion damaging ability "for
free" so there is no way the Trisk will ever damage one of the WW
player´s creatures.

Example: The Triskelion player removes one counter to damage one of the
WW player´s creatures. Because of the shikari the WW Player can now
respond by equipping the targeted creature with the greaves. The
damaging ability is countered on resolution, as its target is no longer
legal. If the Triskelion player targets another creature in response to
the equip ability, the WW player can still use the greaves equip ability
again in response and the 2nd Triskelion ability becomes countered on
resolution. Then the first equip ability resolves, equipping the greaves
to the first creature before the 1st Triskelion ability resolves.
(After 3 Triskelion "Shots" the Triskelion player will run out of
counters anyway, because damage is never dealt to any of the creatures).

In short: The WW player´s creatures are nicely protected