counter triggers
I guess im just not getting what happening, card 1- mossborn hydra card 2 said if a counter double the amount, 3 lands drop, 1 counter+1, then2 +2, then 4 +4, to 14 right? 0 +2+4+8 dudes got 128, even double again that 0 4 8 16 for 28, hes got 128. i love this card and drop extra land all the time, and i saw someone do it withtifa too 3 lands somehow gets them 128 counters but when i drop 3 lands its not exponential like this if i have 2 and were double i got the chocobo version, i have maxed at 64 3 drops doubled twice from 1 or none, so minimum thats 1+4+8+16 or 29if it had were saying. somecards are triggering, doubling twice but not the chocobo one nor the hydra? the hydra producing 1/2 the counters for me under the same circ. becayse somehiw the chocobo ability and the card dude play are different but the woriding is the same. i have tried a dozen time to reoroduce this exponential double and cant replicate, with the same stuff, so theyre somehow doing a turn 4 128 counter trample no longer effected by summoning sickness killer? playing 3 additional lands, idk how he played the other land no spell for that flashback would have costed everything he spent on the first spell the other 2 lands... starts 5 mana ends 8 and double doubling, 1 for turn plus a spell for 2, 128 counter i just its not mathing unless somehow there is additional triggering idk its super frustrating when i see opponents do stuff and then not be able to replicate it with the same function. same abilities same amounts...
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You doule ALL the counters that are on the Hydra at the time the trigger resolves. How many you put onto it this turn is irrelevant. So the Hydra starts with 1, land enters, Hydra doubles its counters, so now has 2. Next land enters, Hydra doubles its counters, so goes from 2 to 4. Next land, 4 goes to 8. Next land, 8 goes to 16. and so on. If you pour more counters on before the doubling, those counters are then doubled as well. So if Hydra gets a counter some other way, lets say it had 2 then went to 3, the next land doubles the 3 counters to 6, the next to 12, the next to 24, and so on.
So to recap: You double whatever number of counters is on the Hydra when the landfall trigger resolves. Without any other counter shenanigans or power/toughness modifications, the Hydra's p/t will always be a power of 2 (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc.)