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Oct 31, 2010 -- 2:06AM, NeoHuman wrote:

what im getting at is does each of the secondary abilitys of all 6 of the precursor golems trigger on each of the golems?

The term "secondary ability" is confusing, because it implies that the spell-copying abiliuty is somehow less important to the card (when it's probably the other way around.) It's the second ability.

The answer is "Yes, all the Golems trigger, but that probably won't matter." You resolve one of the Precursor copy triggers, and then all the copies it creates, before moving on to the second trigger. Thus, after resolving three of the triggers, and the subsequent copies of the Infection, the only Golem on the battlefield is the one targeted by the original spell. Consequently the last three copy triggers produce no copies of the Instill Infection.

Finally the originally-targeted Golem gets a -1/-1 counter, making it 2/2.

or if they were giant growth ed
granting each golem +3/+3 per precursor golem?

thus adding +18/+18 for each golem?

Yes, each golem except the one originally targeted, which gets +3/+3.

Oct 31, 2010 -- 10:28AM, Fireball-Debate wrote:

Oct 31, 2010 -- 2:09AM, MrQuizzles wrote:

Yes, each Precursor Golem that is in play would have its ability trigger.
If there were 6 precursor golems, then each other golem would get +18/+18. The one that was originally targeted would only get +3/+3 since no copies are made for it.

Wouldn't the other precursor golems make copies for him, so The original would have one less copy made or something. I don't think you are correct here. I really don't know though.

No, the Precursors all treat the target of the original spell as not valid for a copy.

The ability says

Whenever a player casts an instant or sorcery spell that targets only a single Golem, that player copies that spell for each other Golem that spell could target. Each copy targets a different one of those Golems.

If there are 28 Golems on the battlefield, the spell will be replicated 27 times.