Creature Gains Protection After Blockers Declared
Asked by Vassile 12 years ago
If a card:Gideon's Avenger is attacking and I block with Knight Exemplar if he then responds with Brave the Elements does he bypass and hit directly or is it still blocked?
GLBoxingGlove says... #2
The same would go for if the blocking creature is destroyed Doom Blade or somehow exiled, or Boomerang ed.
August 28, 2011 10:25 p.m.
Does the situation change if the attacking creature had trample? And the blocker was destroyed or the attacker had gained protection from its color?
August 29, 2011 1:04 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #4
If the attacking creature gains trample, it still has to assign lethal damage to the blocker, but it can potentially do damage to the defending player.
If the blocking is destroyed after being assigned as a blocker, then the attacking creature is still blocked. If a would-be blocker is preemptively destroyed before the declare blockers step, then it won't be around to block regardless.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #1
Once a creature is blocked, then it doesn't matter if it is given protection. That creature already has a status as a blocked creature. The protection will prevent any damage Knight Exemplar would deal to card:Gideon's Avenger, but it won't suddenly cause Gideon's Avenger to go around the Exemplar and hit you.
Protection follows the DEBT acronym:
Damage - All damage that would be dealt to a creature with protection from X by a source of quality X is prevented.
Enchant/Equip - A creature with protection from X cannot be enchanted or equipped by anything of quality X.
Blocking - A creature with protection from X cannot be blocked by a creature of quality X.
Targeting - A creature with protection from X cannot be targeted by a source of quality X.
When protection refers to blocking, it means that a creature of quality X cannot be assigned to block a creature with protection from X. If the attacker gains protection after becoming blocked, it has no effect as far as the B in DEBT is concerned.
Also:
509.1h An attacking creature with one or more creatures declared as blockers for it becomes a blocked creature; one with no creatures declared as blockers for it becomes an unblocked creature. This remains unchanged until the creature is removed from combat, an effect says that it becomes blocked or unblocked, or the combat phase ends, whichever comes first. A creature remains blocked even if all the creatures blocking it are removed from combat.
702.15f Attacking creatures with protection cant be blocked by creatures that have the stated quality.
August 28, 2011 4:29 a.m.