Assume that you have {Dragon Tempest} on the board with no dragons in play. You resolve an effect that puts four dragons into play - from {Ugin the Spirit Dragon}, {Sarkan Uberbroken}, or {Descent of Dragons}, take your pick. How would the damage triggers of Dragon Tempest resolve?
I'll also post what I think happens:
The four triggers hit the stack and resolve each resolves with four dragons on the field doing four damage for each, for a total of 16 damage.
Quote from: Nfidel2k on March 10, 2015, 07:33:10 AM
Assume that you have {Dragon Tempest} on the board with no dragons in play. You resolve an effect that puts four dragons into play - from {Ugin the Spirit Dragon}, {Sarkan Uberbroken}, or {Descent of Dragons}, take your pick. How would the damage triggers of Dragon Tempest resolve?
So with each of those abilities, they all would act the same way in this case, so let's use sarkhan as an example. You use his ultimate, and find four dragons in your deck. His ability doesn't finish resolving until all those dragons are on the table. You can't interrupt a spell or ability once it's resolving with another trigger, so as far as game state goes, all of those dragons enter simultaneously.
Once the dragons have ETB (let's assume the four dragons are {Dragon Whelp} for ease of triggers) {Dragon Tempest} gives you 8 triggers - 4 giving each individual dragon haste which are easy to resolve, and four that deal damage as they see the game state on resolution, with X =4.
So the tl;dr version is:
Sarkhans ability resolves, 4 dragons ETB
8 triggers from Dragon Tempest on the stack:
4 haste triggers
4 damage triggers where X=4.
Thanks, wanted to make sure. :)
Just to confirm, it's the same as with scourge of Valkas. The X is checked on resolution, and multiples entering the battlefield will cause it to trigger multiple times. The end result is what Cender came to.