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Why does this work? It’s because “leaves the battlefield” triggers have to “look back in time,” so to speak, at the game state immediately before<\/em> an event in order to check whether they should trigger. This is contrary to all the other kinds of triggers, which check the game state immediately after<\/em> an event to check for triggers.<\/p>\n This isn’t only true for creatures. Anything that looks for permanents leaving the battlefield works the same way. So if you have a single event that destroys Dark Prophecy<\/a> at the same time as four creatures, like Planar Cleansing<\/a> does, the game looks back to just before the event and sees that there was a Dark Prophecy with a trigger that cared about the creatures that just died at the same time as it was destroyed. You’ll get 4 triggers, and will draw 4 cards and lose 4 life.<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Josh Stansfield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A common question players have is about when lots of creatures die at once, and one of them has a trigger that cares about creatures dying. Does it see them dying at the same time? Yes. If dies with 3 other creatures to Supreme Verdict, for example, the Artist will trigger for all the creatures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[985,986],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triggeredabilities","tag-dark-prophecy","tag-planar-cleansing","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>A common question players have is about when lots of creatures die at once, and one of them has a trigger that cares about creatures dying. Does it see them dying at the same time? Yes. If Blood Artist<\/a> dies with 3 other creatures to Supreme Verdict, for example, the Artist will trigger for all the creatures that died.<\/p>\n