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[Haralla]

If I have multiple old forest hunters in play and discard a card do I get multiple gold?

 

Is it:

 

1). 3 Old Forest Hunters in play + discard 1 card in hand = 3 gold  

 

or 

 

2). 3 Old Forest Hunters in play + discard 3 cards in hand = 3 gold   

 

Thanks for the help!

[Masterdinadan]

Best Answer

2 is more correct.
Strictly speaking though, it's three separate actions. Discard a card, take a gold. Repeat twice. But your opponent could play their own action in between these.

[Haralla]

Ok thanks!

[ktom]

Generally speaking, when an ability is worded in the "Do X to do Y" format, the "X" is a cost. Old Forest Hunter is worded this way ("Discard a card to gain 1 gold), so discarding the card ("X") is the cost of the ability. Paying for one ability cannot be applied to the costs for other abilities, too -- even if the other abilities are on separate copies of the same card.

 

Discarding one card and getting 3 gold - one for each copy of Old Forest Hunter - would be like going into you local game store, paying the $39.95 cost for a Core Set once and walking out with 3 copies.