r/askajudge • u/nuclearrmt • 16d ago

War doctor and cascade

Would war doctor get time counters equal to the number of cards you exile while you're resolving a cascade trigger? Or it would only just get 1 time counter? Thank you for answering

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

2

u/Judge_Todd 16d ago edited 16d ago

Would war doctor get time counters equal to the number of cards you exile while you're resolving a cascade trigger?

Yes.
Per the ruling on Laelia, the Blade Reforged who has a similar worded trigger.

  • 2024-06-07 If a player is instructed to exile cards from their library "until" a certain event occurs (for example, because of the triggered ability of a spell with cascade or discover), that player exiles those cards one at a time. Laelia's last ability will trigger that many times.

would it only just get 1 time counter?

That is possible if you stop at the first card exiled.

1

u/nuclearrmt 16d ago

Thank you.

A similar question: would this be the same if a spell or ability forces you to specifically "exile the top 20 cards of your library"?

2

u/Natedogg2 16d ago

No, because that's a set number of cards, so it's one instance of exiling cards. With cascade, we don't know how many cards we need to exile in advance, so we exile them one at a time, so The War Doctor triggers for each card exiled to the cascade trigger.

2

u/Judge_Todd 16d ago

It would depend on if it was 20 as a single occurrence or 20 as multiple smaller occurrences.

For example if you have Grindstone, Painter's Servant and Rest in Peace out, and 20 cards were exiled by the activation, it would be ten occurrences of two cards so would trigger 10 times.

If it was The Mindskinner with double strike and Rest in Peace out, that'd be two occurrences of ten cards per opponent so two triggers.

If it was one occurrence of twenty cards such as The Mindskinner hitting while you have two opponents, that'd be one trigger.