Can you give something protection from a Planeswalker, by using color protection?
Asked by Diseased.Clay 9 years ago
Let's say I were to have out Gideon, Champion of Justice, and I had enough loyalty counters on him to use his -15. Would I be able to give a creature protection from White, maybe by using Eight-and-a-Half-Tails ability, so that they would not have to be exiled?
Epochalyptik says... #3
The question you ask in your title is slightly different from the question you ask in the body. Although a creature with protection from white will indeed have protection from Gideon, Champion of Justice, it won't prevent that creature from being exiled by Gideon, Champion of Justice's -15 ability for the reasons stated above.
March 6, 2015 1:28 p.m.
Diseased.Clay says... #4
Epochalyptik, the use of Gideon, Champion of Justice's ability was merely an example. But, the way Rhadamanthus explained it did answer the question I had. Thank you for the insight though, it does help also.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
No, that won't produce the result you're going for.
Protection defends against 4 things: D.E.B.T.
D - Damage gets prevented
E - No Enchanting/Equipping
B - No Blocking
T - No Targeting
The -15 ability in this example doesn't do any of the things that protection from white would defend against, so everything gets exiled. The key thing to remember here is that a spell or ability only targets if it specifically uses the word "target", either in the printed text or in the full rules text of a keyword ability (like an "Equip" ability, or an Aura spell with "Enchant NN")
March 6, 2015 1:11 p.m.