Dominion - Kings Court on Tragic Hero

Question

What happens when you play a kings court on a tragic hero?

Does it go like this: Lets say your hand is 3 coppers, a kings court and a tragic hero.

1. Play the kings court
2. Select the tragic hero
3. (Play tragic hero first time) Pick up 3 cards (now have 6 cards in hand)
4. (Play tragic hero second time) Pick up 3 cards (now have 9 cards in hand)
5. Tragic hero gets trashed for say a gold
6. (Play tragic hero third time) The effect fizzles as the tragic hero has been trashed.

Is the above correct?

Answer 1

Not quite. Effects only fail if their conditions can't be met - for example, if Tragic Hero had said "Trash this to gain a Treasure"^[1], then that wouldn't activate. However, instead, it goes like this:

Play a King's Court from your hand
- Select Tragic Hero to play 3 times
- Play Tragic Hero 1st time
  - Draw 3 cards
  - Get +1 Buy
- Play Tragic Hero 2nd time
  - Draw 3 cards
  - Get +1 Buy
  - You have more than 8 cards in hand
    - Trash Tragic Hero
    - Gain a Treasure
- Play Tragic Hero 3rd time
  - Draw 3 cards
  - Get +1 Buy
  - You have more than 8 cards in hand
    - Try to trash Tragic Hero, but you can't (it's no longer in play)[2]
    - Gain a Treasure

^[1] "Do X to do Y." in Dominion is equivalent to "Do X. If you did, do Y." so you must do X if possible, but you only do Y if you successfully did X. "You may do X to do Y." is the same except that you choose whether to do X, then you do Y if you did X successfully.

^[2] This is the Stop-Moving rule. Tragic Hero's effect comes from being played, so it expects to find itself in play. It isn't in play, so it can't trash itself.