Giant Beaver Trigger Bug
I was playing Premier Draft Outlaws of Thunder Junction. The ability of my "Giant Beaver" is triggered when there's an "Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor" on my board, so "Giant Beaver"'s ability should be copied by "Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor"'s ability, but it was not.
There is a different with MTG rule and should be a bug. My creatures' abilities were not correctly solved and led me to lose the game. It was a frustrating game experience, so could you please kindly provide me some compensation?
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
Ertha Jo cares about ACTIVATED abilities only. Giant Beaver's first ability is a TRIGGERED one. The saddle ability is an activated one, but it doesn't target, and copying it won't do anything useful. Nothing wrong here.
Learn the difference between activated abilities and triggered abilities:
Activated abilities ALWAYS use the template [cost]:[effect], either on the card itself or in the rules text of the keyword ability (like saddle). Activated abilities are intentionally put on the stack by players by paying their costs. Activated abilities get activated by players, they cannot trigger or be triggered.
Triggered abilities ALWAYS use the words "when", "whenever", or "at" to describe their trigger conditions. Triggered abilities go on the stack when their trigger condition is met, wether the player wants that to happen or not. (Note, that the word "if" does not denote a triggered ability, but is an indicator for a static ability creating a replacement effect.) Triggered abilities trigger, they aren't activated and cannot be activated.