It's important to know that "protection" normally prevents damage. This is no different from any other prevention effect, so it can be overridden by "can't be prevented" abilities.
Category: Prevention and Replacement Effects
Pyromancer’s Gauntlet with Flames of the Firebrand.
Pyromancer's Gauntlet works well with your red spells that would be dealing damage to multiple things at once, and we explain why!
Test of Faith and Multiple Blockers
Hello, and welcome to the third day of week. Hopefully, after reading today’s article, you’ll have all the knowledge you need on and a random 4/4. And then I cast on my creature. When it comes time to deal damage, my 6/6 is supposed to receive two damage from the Nighthawk and four damage from […]
Test of Faith and Combat Damage Assignment
Hi again, and welcome to part two of week. Today, let’s take a look at how works in combat. You don’t get the counters added to the creature right away. The counters are added as the damage is being prevented. And unless first or double strike is involved, all creatures assign and deal their […]
Test of Faith and Multiple Damage Sources
Hello, and welcome to week, where I’ll be focusing on , an intriguing common recently brought back by Modern Masters. It looks fairly innocent at first, but it can be deceptively confusing. What does do? In short, it sets up a small damage prevention shield around a creature. It prevents up to three points of […]
Blood Scrivener and Miracles – It has to really be the first card.
Miracle states it only applies to the FIRST card you draw each turn. Really, the first one. Whenever Magic involves drawing cards, it’s actually done as individual actions, so when it says to draw 3, it means “draw 1, draw 1, draw 1” in principal. Hence, you have to reveal each of them when is […]
Translating Notion Thief into English.
WANTED: A discreet individual interested in a rare opportunity. Must possess uncanny speed, impressive skill with a knife, and the ability to give material form to thoughts. The Gateless need not apply. — ! What a spiffy name for a card. Unfortunately, his rules text is a bit of a chore to read. Translated from […]
Blood Scrivener and “Draw two cards” effects.
Card drawing can be a pain. Well, more specifically, black card drawing can be a pain. Black has a long history of letting you draw cards for life. From cards like to to , black can draw cards at the cost of life. And Dragon’s Maze brings us the latest card in that theme, . […]
Bioshift onto Corpsejack Menace.
You may remember from a few weeks ago that doubles all +1/+1 counters that would be placed on a creature. Let’s return to the lab where we left off, with a Menace on the battlefield alongside a with four +1/+1 counters on it. What happens if we now cast , moving the counters from the […]