To quickly remind yourself of what protection does, just think of the Orzhov guild\u2019s favorite word: DEBT. D stands for dealing damage; E stands for enchanting\/equipping; B stands for blocking; and T stands for targeting.<\/p>\n
While you might be most familiar with protection from a color, protection can also encompass a wide variety of other things. For example, Holy Mantle<\/a> gives \u201cprotection from creatures.\u201d If we apply this quality to the four letters of DEBT, we learn that our protected creature can\u2019t be dealt damage by creatures; it can\u2019t be equipped or enchanted by creatures (not that it could, anyway); it can\u2019t be blocked by creatures (in other words, not at all); and it can\u2019t be the target of abilities of creatures.<\/p>\n But what does this all have to do with Bloodrush? After all, the word \u201ccreatures\u201d usually refers to creature permanents on the battlefield (for example, your Glorious Charge<\/a> won\u2019t increase the power of that Slitherhead<\/a> in your graveyard). Here\u2019s another wrinkle: protection has an exception that makes it apply not just to permanents, but to all cards and spells not on the battlefield which have the chosen quality. So a creature geared up with Holy Mantle can\u2019t be the target of a Bloodrush ability, because its source has the word \u201cCreature\u201d in its type line. It can\u2019t be scavenged onto by Slitherhead, either.<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by Jen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To quickly remind yourself of what protection does, just think of the Orzhov guild\u2019s favorite word: DEBT. D stands for dealing damage; E stands for enchanting\/equipping; B stands for blocking; and T stands for targeting. While you might be most familiar with protection from a color, protection can also encompass a wide variety of other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108,17,122],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-staticabilities","category-zones","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}