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Let’s say I have 2 Elvish Visionaries on the battlefield. I resolve a third EV with the other two alive.

The two other EVs have the card text, “When Elvish Visionary ETB, draw a card”. Will the third EV draw me 3 cards because the other elves see an Elvish visionary ETB, or will I get one trigger because only one is entering.

My question is, should it resolve with RAW, and get 3 triggers or RAI with it behaving like “When this creature . . . “? (I use RAI lightly, not actually knowing the intentions)

I ask because with the new Bolas, I don’t know how that interaction will work with cards like “Jace, Cunning Castaway” and “Dovin, Grand Arbiter”. Both cards enumerate their respective names, but people are piecing combos together with Bolas being able to copy other loyalty abilities.

RAW: Rules As Written RAI: Rules As Intended

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    There is essentially no such thing as RAI in Magic: the Gathering. The rules are very strictly and comprehensively written, and while some rare edge cases may be ambiguous, they are basically never up to player interpretation.
    – murgatroid99 ♦
    Apr 16, 2019 at 1:04
  • If you want to look at some of those rare edge cases where rulings are more.... flexible? Check out some of the mtg-joke-cards questions. One thing to note is that those cards often deliberatly break "Black-boreder" (or regular) Magic rules.
    – Malco
    Apr 16, 2019 at 15:08

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You draw a single card under both RAW and RAI.

This is covered by rule 201.4

201.4: Text that refers to the object it's on by name means just that particular object and not any other objects with that name, regardless of any name changes caused by game effects.

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