Does a creature taking damage change it's toughness until end of turn?
Asked by The_Epic_Dog 5 years ago
Say I cast Lightning Bolt on a 5/5. Is that creature a 5/2 until end of turn, therefore being immune to cars like Legion's Judgment? Also, if the creature power and toughness would be switched because of a card like Invert / Invent, would it be a 2/5? Or would it heal to a 5/5 or a 2/8?
Rhadamanthus says... #2
So you know: there are some digital versions of the game that show a creature's toughness go down when it's dealt damage, but that's just a UI design choice. Those versions do it that way just to make it easy to see how close a creature is to dying. The toughness isn't actually being reduced.
Neotrup says... Accepted answer #1
No. A 5/5 that takes 3 damage becomes a 5/5 with 3 marked damage. Also, Legion's Judgment care's about the creatures power, not toughness. A 5/5 that get's hit with Lightning Bolt followed by Inside Out becomes a 5/5 with 3 marked damage.
An reason damage and loss of toughness is important is because if there is a Darksteel Sentinel and it get's hit with Lightning Bolt the result is a Darksteel Sentinel with 3 marked damage. If a 3Darksteel Sentinel is instead hit with the second half of Agony Warp it instead becomes a very dead 3/0 as indestructible can't save it from having no toughness.
On how cards like Inside Out work, if a 5/5 is hit with Spatial Contortion and then Inside Out, it becomes a 2/8. If instead it gets hit with Inside Out and then Spatial Contortion it still becomes a 2/8. This is because the effects are applied in layer order rather than timestamp order.
September 30, 2018 11:44 p.m.