The Battlefield

Academy Manufactor

$6.78

Camellia, the Seedmiser

$1.48

Parallel Lives

$37.34

Peregrin Took

$0.63

AI DraftApr 12, 2026

Academy Manufactor + Camellia, the Seedmiser + Parallel Lives + Peregrin Took

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Overview

These four cards all contain replacement or triggered effects that modify token creation and token sacrifice interactions. Academy Manufactor’s static replacement converts any Creation of a Clue, Food, or Treasure token into creating one of each. Parallel Lives doubles tokens that would be created under your control . Peregrin Took adds an additional Food token whenever one or more tokens would be created under your control, but it only applies if you are the one creating those tokens . Camellia, the Seedmiser creates a 1/1 Squirrel whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods; that triggered ability itself creates tokens that are then subject to the other token-creation replacement effects. Creating a Clue via Academy Manufactor is not the same as investigating for effects that care about investigating .

Step 1

Start with an effect that would create 1 Food token under your control.

Step 2

Consider the three replacement effects you control that can modify that creation: Academy Manufactor (replace creating a Food with creating one of each Clue/Food/Treasure), Peregrin Took (if tokens would be created, create those tokens plus an additional Food), and Parallel Lives (double the number of tokens created) .

Step 3

The controller of those replacement effects chooses the order to apply them; different orders give different final token counts (this is how multiple replacement effects that apply to the same event interact) .

Step 4

Order example A (Academy Manufactor → Peregrin Took → Parallel Lives): The single Food creation is first replaced by Academy Manufactor with create one Clue + one Food + one Treasure. Peregrin Took then replaces that 'one or more tokens' event with those tokens plus an additional Food, producing create 1 Clue, 2 Foods, 1 Treasure. Parallel Lives then doubles all tokens created by that event, giving final creation of 2 Clues, 4 Foods, and 2 Treasures .

Step 5

Order example B (Peregrin Took → Academy Manufactor → Parallel Lives): The single Food creation is first replaced by Peregrin Took with create 2 Foods. Academy Manufactor then replaces each Food creation with create one of each (each Food produces 1 Clue + 1 Food + 1 Treasure), yielding create 2 Clues, 2 Foods, 2 Treasures. Parallel Lives doubles those to 4 Clues, 4 Foods, and 4 Treasures .

Step 6

If the initial effect would create N Foods (or multiple tokens at once), Academy Manufactor typically applies per token created, and the arithmetic follows similarly (replacing each Food-created instance with a set of three tokens, then applying Peregrin and Parallel Lives according to the chosen order) .

Step 7

If you then sacrifice Foods (for example to Camellia’s Forage or to pay Peregrin’s Sacrifice-three-Foods to draw), Camellia’s triggered ability 'Whenever you sacrifice one or more Foods, create a 1/1 green Squirrel token' triggers once per sacrifice event (sacrificing multiple Foods at the same time is a single event and so generates a single trigger). The Squirrel token(s) created by Camellia’s trigger are themselves token-creation events and will be affected by Parallel Lives and Peregrin Took (if you are the creator) but not by Academy Manufactor (which only applies to Clue/Food/Treasure creation) .

Step 8

Remember you can’t sacrifice a single Food to pay multiple costs (e.g., you can’t sacrifice the same Food both to forage and simultaneously to pay some other separate cost) .

Resolution

When a single Food (or a single Clue/Treasure) would be created, Academy Manufactor, Peregrin Took, and Parallel Lives are all replacement effects that can apply to that same token-creation event. The player who controls those replacement effects chooses the order to apply them, and the final numbers depend on that order. Two illustrative orders on a single initial Food-creation are: (A) Academy Manufactor → Peregrin Took → Parallel Lives produces 2 Clues, 4 Foods, and 2 Treasures. (B) Peregrin Took → Academy Manufactor → Parallel Lives produces 4 Clues, 4 Foods, and 4 Treasures. Camellia’s sacrifice-trigger creates Squirrel tokens when you sacrifice Foods; those Squirrel tokens are themselves token-creation events and will be affected by Peregrin Took and Parallel Lives (and not by Academy Manufactor, which only affects Clue/Food/Treasure creation). You can’t sacrifice a single Food to pay multiple costs (for example, to both forage and pay another cost) .

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