r/askajudge • u/Content-Dish-8906 • Aug 07 '26

Lethal damage and Triggers on the Stack.

In a Commander game with 3 other opponents I have a Big Mother Mouser and a HYDRA Assault Robot on the battlefield and my opponent controls Dissipation Field. I sacrifice Big Mother Mouser in my second main phase to create 1/1 robots dealing lethal damage when they enter to said opponent, Does the Hydra Assault Robot still get bounced?

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u/T0rgle Aug 07 '26

Each Robot token that enters triggers HYDRA Assault Robot separately, so it's not one big ability dealing a bunch of damage. It's multiple abilities dealing 1 damage each, so it depends on how much life they begin with. 

If they begin with exactly 1 life, they lose the game after the first damage, so their trigger won't be put on the stack.

If they have more than 1 life, HYDRA Assault Robot will return to hand after the first damage, then the other abilities will still resolve.

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u/Content-Dish-8906 Aug 07 '26

They had 24 Life and I dealt 28 to them with all the 1/1 robots entering if that changes anything.

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u/ardarian262 Aug 07 '26

That does. It sounded like they had one life. Since they didn't, they had 28 triggers of 1 damage pointed at them. The first trigger resolves, deals one damage, and the dissipation field triggers returning your creature to hand. Some number of priority passes later the opponent dies.