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CardName: Nihiita, Lord of Consumption Cost: {5}{B}{B} Type: Legendary Creature - Elemental Demon Pow/Tgh: 6/5 Rules Text: Flying At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature. When you put one or more counters creatures this way, Nihiita, Lord of Consumption gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Alxzarza: Death in the Desert Mythic

Nihiita, Lord of Consumption
{5}{b}{b}
 
 M 
Legendary Creature – Elemental Demon
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each other creature. When you put one or more counters creatures this way, Nihiita, Lord of Consumption gets +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creatures that died this turn.
6/5
Updated on 05 Feb 2022 by Sorrow

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2021-11-24 15:50:15: Sorrow created the card Nihiita, Lord of Consumption

Note that SBAs are not taken until a player is about to receive priority i. e. not during the resolution of a triggered ability. That means there could be creatures still on the battlfield with zero toughness by the time you count the number of creatures that died this turn.

Two simple ways to fix this:

  • Make it a reflexive trigger ("When you do" rather than "Then").
  • Split the ability entirely and have the +X/+X effect only once it really matters e. g. "At the beginning of combat during your turn".
2021-11-25 16:45:44: Sorrow edited Nihiita, Lord of Consumption:

see SecretInfiltrator's comment

2022-02-03 20:42:08: Sorrow edited Nihiita, Lord of Consumption:

missing supertype

Now that I look at it, I notice an issue: If your opponent controls Tatterkite, will the reflexive trigger work? I'd guess, no. I don't know whether that's an issue with you.

I think the trigger would still work, though I admit I am not super-knowledgable with the rules here. Nihiita, Lord of Consumption puts the counter on each other creature. Tatterkite's ability evades Nihiita's, but unless Tatterkite and Nihiita were the only creatures on the battlefield, the reflex should still trigger. I would also think, with the current wording, so long as a creature gains a counter from Nihiita's ability, the reflex will trigger and still count any creatures that died in other ways (if this is an issue, could wording be changed to "creatures that died this way" instead?).

> Tatterkite's ability evades Nihiita's, but unless Tatterkite and Nihiita were the only creatures on the battlefield, the reflex should still trigger.

How come? You failed to put a counter on each other creature since there is one other counter you didn't put a counter on. I think you have to write out what you want the condition to be rather than write "do" e. g. (for what you seem to want) "When you put one or more counters creatures this way".

If nothing else, it removes ambiguity.

2022-02-05 01:11:18: Sorrow edited Nihiita, Lord of Consumption

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