AI DraftFeb 26, 2026
Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Teysa Karlov + Viscera Seer
Overview
If you sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton to Viscera Seer (sacrifice is a cost) , Pitiless Plunderer’s triggered ability (“Whenever another creature you control dies…”) will trigger; because Teysa Karlov causes triggered abilities of permanents you control that were caused by a creature dying to trigger an additional time, Pitiless Plunderer’s ability will trigger twice and you will create two Treasure tokens (tokens are created with the text defined by the creating ability) and are owned/controlled by you . The triggered abilities are put on the stack after state-based actions and the activation is handled normally .
Step 1
You activate Viscera Seer’s ability and pay its activation cost, which includes sacrificing a creature; you choose to sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton as that cost (sacrificing moves the Skeleton from the battlefield to your graveyard) .
Step 2
The game observes that a creature you controlled was put into your graveyard; that event causes Pitiless Plunderer’s ability (“Whenever another creature you control dies…”) to trigger. Because Teysa Karlov is on the battlefield and the trigger is a triggered ability of a permanent you control caused by a creature dying, that ability triggers an additional time (so there are two separate Pitiless Plunderer triggers) [Ruling 2019-01-25].
Step 3
State-based actions are checked and then triggered abilities waiting to be put on the stack are put on the stack in the appropriate order per normal rules .
Step 4
Viscera Seer’s activated ability is on the stack (it was activated), and the two Pitiless Plunderer triggers are placed on the stack according to normal triggered-ability timing and the active player/nonactive player rules; they are separate triggers and will resolve separately, each creating a Treasure token with the defined text .
Step 5
When each Pitiless Plunderer trigger resolves, you create a Treasure token for each resolution, so you end up with two Treasures from that sacrifice (one from the original trigger and one from the extra trigger Teysa provided).
Step 6
Viscera Seer’s ability then resolves (if it hasn’t already), allowing you to Scry 1. Afterwards (or at any time you have priority and can pay its cost), you may pay Reassembling Skeleton’s activated ability cost (
) to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped per its oracle text.
) to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped per its oracle text.Resolution
When you activate Viscera Seer and sacrifice Reassembling Skeleton as the cost, the sacrifice moves the Skeleton to your graveyard (a sacrifice is moving a permanent to its owner’s graveyard as part of paying a cost) . That event causes Pitiless Plunderer’s “Whenever another creature you control dies” ability to trigger; Teysa Karlov causes that triggered ability (a triggered ability of a permanent you control caused by a creature dying) to trigger an additional time, so you get two separate Treasure-token triggers (two Treasures) [Ruling 2019-01-25]. The triggered abilities are placed on the stack after state-based actions are checked according to normal procedure . Afterward you may pay Reassembling Skeleton’s activated ability cost to return it from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped per its oracle text.
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