
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’ll get two corresponding card-draw triggers. You can do the same in a free-for-all multiplayer game by attacking two different players. Sai, Master Thopterist Core Set 2019 (R) FOIL Legendary Creature - Human Artificer 10. Whenever a creature token you control dies, if its represented by food, eat it. While enchantment cards often avoid activated abilities in favor of triggered and static abilities, artifacts embrace activated abilities. Customers who purchased Magic Origins: Thopter Spy Network also bought. At the beginning of your upkeep, if youre eating, create a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying. This means that if you attack with two Thopters, you can assign one Thopter’s damage to Head A, assign the other’s damage to Head B, and draw two cards. Thopter Spy Network Thopter Assembly Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer Activated Abilities A defining feature of artifact cards tends to be their activated abilities. For example, in Two-Headed Giant (which you may have played at your last prerelease), although both heads share a life total, they’re still two separate players. Worry not, though, for there are ways around this card-drawing restriction… such as by spying on multiple opponents at once. Rather, the Network will trigger once for each time that “one or more artifact creatures you control deal combat damage to a player…” and since all attacking creatures deal combat damage at the same time, no matter whether you’re attacking with one, two, or twenty Thopters, you’re only going to get to draw one card off spying on your opponent. As great as it would be if the Network upgraded all your Thopters into Thieving Magpies, that’s sadly not the case. That second ability warrants further investigation, though. What happens when you get a bunch of Thopter tokens together? Why, they form a Thopter Spy Network, of course! Although it’s 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’re playing the Network in your deck, you do have one, don’t you?), and also drawing you a bunch of cards.
