The Battlefield

Ancient Gold Dragon

$25.55

Dragon Tempest

$1.18

AI DraftFeb 26, 2026

Ancient Gold Dragon + Dragon Tempest

Overview

When Ancient Gold Dragon deals combat damage to a player, its triggered ability causes you to roll a d20 and create that many 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying. All tokens that enter will each cause Dragon Tempest’s two triggered abilities to trigger: the ‘‘creature you control with flying enters’’ trigger (which grants haste) and the ‘‘Dragon you control enters’’ trigger (which deals X damage). Each Dragon Tempest damage trigger’s X is determined when that trigger resolves, and counts the number of Dragons you control at that time (see Ruling [2017-11-17]). Also note the combat-damage trigger from Ancient Gold Dragon happens after combat damage is dealt .

Step 1

Ancient Gold Dragon deals combat damage to a player during the combat damage step; combat damage is dealt simultaneously and then relevant triggered abilities trigger .

Step 2

Ancient Gold Dragon’s triggered ability ("Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, roll a d20. You create a number of 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying equal to the result.") triggers and goes on the stack.

Step 3

When that ability resolves you roll the d20 and create N 1/1 blue Faerie Dragon creature tokens with flying; those tokens are put onto the battlefield (they enter) as part of that ability’s resolution.

Step 4

Each token that entered is a creature with flying, so for each token Dragon Tempest’s triggered ability ‘‘Whenever a creature you control with flying enters, it gains haste until end of turn’’ will trigger (one trigger per token). The tokens entering are also Dragons (Faerie Dragon), so for each token Dragon Tempest’s triggered ability ‘‘Whenever a Dragon you control enters, it deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of Dragons you control’’ will trigger (one trigger per token).

Step 5

You will therefore have N haste-granting triggers (one referring to each entering creature with flying) and N damage triggers (one for each entering Dragon).

Step 6

Each Dragon Tempest damage trigger calculates X when that trigger resolves; X equals the number of Dragons you control at resolution time (Ruling [2017-11-17]). Since the tokens have already entered the battlefield when the triggers were created, if none of those Dragons leave before a damage trigger resolves that trigger will count all of them (for example, Ancient Gold Dragon + all N tokens).

Resolution

After Ancient Gold Dragon deals combat damage (damage is dealt simultaneously during the combat damage step) , its triggered ability will put a token-creation event on the stack. When that ability resolves you create N Faerie Dragon tokens; those tokens enter the battlefield and will each cause Dragon Tempest’s two triggered abilities to trigger. You will get N triggers that give the entering flying creatures haste and N separate Dragon Tempest damage triggers. Each Dragon Tempest damage trigger deals X damage where X is the number of Dragons you control when that trigger resolves (Ruling [2017-11-17]). If, for example, Ancient Gold Dragon is the only Dragon you control and you create 5 tokens, there will be 5 damage triggers and each will see 6 Dragons (Ancient Gold Dragon + the 5 tokens) if no Dragons leave before a trigger resolves, so each trigger would deal 6 damage.

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