{"id":5139,"date":"2015-03-13T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:24:41","slug":"indestructible-damage-and-bile-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2015\/03\/indestructible-damage-and-bile-blight\/","title":{"rendered":"Indestructible, Damage, and Bile Blight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indestructible is a neat little ability. It does exactly what you’d expect- it means that the permanent in question simply can’t be destroyed, whether that be via lethal damage or a “destroy” effect like Shatter<\/a> or Doom Blade<\/a>. It does NOT protect against other forms of removal or death, though: exile, the Legend Rule, the Planeswalker Uniqueness Rule, and having 0 or less toughness all get around Indestructible pretty easily. However, a common misconception I’ve run into is people trying to ‘combine’ damage and -X\/-X effects to kill an indestructible creature. An indestructible 4\/4 that takes 3 damage is not a 4\/1, because damage does not reduce toughness. It’ll be a 4\/4 with 3 damage marked on it. If you then hit that creature with a Bile Blight<\/a> it would be an indestructible 1\/1 with 3 damage marked on it, which does not kill it because it is indestructible. You can’t try to combine the damage with the -X\/-X like that; it doesn’t work! You’ll have to use -X\/-X effects to reduce the toughness to 0 or less, damage won’t help at all (meaning you’d need two Bile Blights to kill an indestructible 4\/4).<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip was written by Trevor Nunez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indestructible is a neat little ability. It does exactly what you’d expect- it means that the permanent in question simply can’t be destroyed, whether that be via lethal damage or a “destroy” effect like or . It does NOT protect against other forms of removal or death, though: exile, the Legend Rule, the Planeswalker Uniqueness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,32,5],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuouseffects","category-effects","category-state-basedactions","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}