Divination<\/a> tells you to draw two cards, but what actually happens is that you draw a card, then you draw a card. So, let’s slip the Scrivener in there. I have the Scrivener on the battlefield, and I cast the last card in my hand, Divination. My Divination resolves, and, noting what I said above, we go to draw our first card. Since my hand is empty, the Scrivener steps in and instead of drawing one card, I draw two cards and lose one life. We’re done with that draw, so we move on to the second draw. At this point, I have two cards in my hand, so the Scrivener doesn’t apply, so I draw like normal. The net result is that I drew three cards and I lost one life.<\/p>\nLet’s bump the difficulty up just one more notch. Let’s say I have two Blood Scriveners on the battlefield, and cast Divination. Divination resolves, and I go to draw a card. Both Scriveners want to apply, so we apply the first one (we’ll call him Scrivener A). Scrivener A replaces that draw with drawing two cards and losing a life. However, since I’m still drawing a card, and I still have no cards in hand, Scrivener B gets to apply, and replaces the first draw of that with drawing two cards and losing a life. Scrivener A has already applied to this draw, so it doesn’t get to apply again. So the first draw ends up with me drawing three cards and losing two life, then I draw the second card from Divination like normal. So the net result from that interaction is that I’ve drawing a total of four cards and lost two life.<\/p>\n
Today’s Rules Tip written by Nathan Long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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