Ochre Jelly and Wither
I blocked an Ochre Jelly with 4 +1/+1 counters with my Massacre Girl, Known Killer. When the Ochre Jelly died, it still produced another Ochre Jelly with 2 +1/+1 counters, even though, according to the rules, it had no +1/+1 counters on it so its death trigger should not have happened.
Thanks for the free game loss.
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Daruha#09696
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Rezzahan#77802 commented
"Dies" triggers are checked according to the game state PRIOR to the event. Since the Jelly dying and the counters annihilating each other are performed during the same check of state based actions, simultaneously, the Jelly dies with 4 +1/+1 counters AND 4 -1/-1 counters, because that's what is looked like right before it died.