Doubled Twice
Judge Level 2Doubling Season meets Anointed Procession — 3 Goblins become 12.
Cards involved
The goblin factory
You control Doubling Season AND Anointed Procession — both effectively say: "If an effect would create tokens for you, it creates twice that many instead." You tap Krenko: create 3 Goblins.
What happens?
Two replacement effects, one event.
How many Goblins are created — and who picks the order?
Pick an answer to continue.
Each applicable replacement effect is applied exactly once to the (already modified) event: 3 → 6 → 12. The affected player picks the order (616.1) — unlike the Biomancer scenario (addition + multiplication), the order changes nothing here.
616.1If two or more replacement and/or prevention effects are attempting to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected object’s controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the affected player chooses one to apply, following the steps listed below. If two or more players have to make these choices at the same time, choices are made in APNAP order (see rule 101.4).
12 Goblins
The ability resolves, the replacement chain runs, twelve 1/1 Goblins enter the battlefield. Krenko's next activation would count 15 Goblins …
616.1If two or more replacement and/or prevention effects are attempting to modify the way an event affects an object or player, the affected object’s controller (or its owner if it has no controller) or the affected player chooses one to apply, following the steps listed below. If two or more players have to make these choices at the same time, choices are made in APNAP order (see rule 101.4).
Why not infinite?
A replacement effect applies only ONCE per event (614.5) — it never sees the event it just replaced again. Hence ×4 and no loop.
614.5A replacement effect doesn’t invoke itself repeatedly; it gets only one opportunity to affect an event or any modified events that may replace that event.
Stack
Doubling Season
Token events are doubled
Anointed Procession
Token events are doubled (again)
Krenko, Mob Boss
: Create a 1/1 Goblin for each Goblin you control
Activated ability: Krenko, Mob Boss
Krenko ability: create 3 Goblins
The stack is empty.
Battlefield
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