{"id":5825,"date":"2015-09-16T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5825"},"modified":"2015-09-16T13:29:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T20:29:11","slug":"thopter-spy-network-draws-only-one-card-for-multiple-artifact-creatures-dealing-damage-at-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2015\/09\/thopter-spy-network-draws-only-one-card-for-multiple-artifact-creatures-dealing-damage-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Thopter Spy Network draws only one card for multiple artifact creatures dealing damage at once."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>What happens when you get a bunch of Thopter tokens together? Why, they form a Thopter Spy Network<\/a>, of course! Although it\u2019s not an artifact itself, this card is great at supporting artifacts, being able to deploy a new addition to your ranks each turn (assuming you already have one…and if you\u2019re playing the Network in your deck, you do have one, don\u2019t you?), and also drawing you a bunch of cards.<\/p>\n

That second ability warrants further investigation, though. As great as it would be if the Network upgraded all your Thopters into Thieving Magpie<\/a>s, that\u2019s sadly not the case. Rather, the Network will trigger once for each time that \u201cone or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player\u2026\u201d and since all attacking creatures deal combat damage at the same time, no matter whether you\u2019re attacking with one, two, or twenty Thopters, you\u2019re only going to get to draw one card off spying on your opponent.<\/p>\n

Worry not, though, for there are ways around this card-drawing restriction\u2026 such as by spying on multiple opponents at once. For example, in Two-Headed Giant (which you may have played at your last prerelease), although both heads share a life total, they\u2019re still two separate players. This means that if you attack with two Thopters, you can assign one Thopter\u2019s damage to Head A, assign the other\u2019s damage to Head B, and draw two cards. You can do the same in a free-for-all multiplayer game by attacking two different players. Even in a duel, if you can get your artifact creatures to deal damage at different times, such as by giving some of them first strike or double strike, you\u2019ll get two corresponding card-draw triggers.<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thopter Spy Network is good, but be careful to read it correctly! It triggers whenever “one or more artifact creatures deal damage to an opponent,” NOT once for each creature dealing damage.<\/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":[1266],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triggeredabilities","tag-thopter-spy-network","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825","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=5825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5825\/revisions\/5826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5825"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}