How does a creature with Protection from a color interact with other creatures in your deck of specified color.
Asked by Xero203 4 years ago
I am working on building a Knight deck and trying to figure out synergies. I am having trouble wrapping my head around how protection works between creatures on your team. Looking at Phyrexian Crusader with Protection from white would it be able to Receive any benefit from white cards that buff all creatures/knights such as Knight Exemplar , Kwende, Pride of Femeref or Odric, Lunarch Marshal . Also would an enchantment that hits all creatures such Always Watching have any interaction with him?
One additional caveat is that Protection is a State based effect. As such, if you had a creature, like say White Knight that had a Aura on it, like Blessing for example, if you were to give it Protection from White through a card like Gods Willing , then the Equipment and Enchantments would fall off.
This is why White Ward specifies that the Protection it offers does not remove that card.
October 29, 2019 10:11 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #3
While the point that berryjon is trying to make about attached auras and equipment being removed if what they are attached to gains protection is true, protection itself is not a SBA. It is a single static ability that includes a prevention effect (702.16e), an aura legality restriction (702.16c), an equipment legality restriction (702.16d), a blocking restriction (702.16f), and a targeting restriction (702.16b).
The SBAs referred to in 702.16c and 702.16d are 704.5m and 704.5n. These SBAs do more than just handle protection though. As they remove all illegal auras and equipment. If someone had Opalescence out and had auras or equipment on their animated enchantments and the Opalescence leaves the battlefield 704.5m and 704.5n would remove anything that could not be attached to the unanimated enchantments.
If it helps you to think of the "E" in debt as a SBA, I guess there is no harm in it. Though I find it simpler to just know that it changes enchant/equip legality and that auras attached to illegal objects are sent to the graveyard and equipment attached to illegal objects are unequipped.
October 29, 2019 11:40 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #4
Comprehensive rules plain text and PDF links for anyone that doesn't know where to find them. CTRL+F helps you navigate what is a 237 page PDF (or however many lines of text that is) and the numbers in my previous reply are rules citations for reference.
Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #1
Protection prevents four things easily remembered by the mnemonic DEBT.
Damage- Objects with protection can not be damaged by a source that they have protection from.
Enchant/Equip- Objects can not be enchanted or equipped by something that they have protection from.
Blocked- Creatures can not be blocked by creatures they have protection from.
Targeted- Objects can not be targeted by spells or abilities that they have protection from.
If an effect does none of those things then it interacts normally with the object with protection. Phyrexian Crusader would be destroyed by Wrath of God since it does none of the four things. It would survive a Blasphemous Act since the damage would be prevented. It would be affected by all of your named cards because they do none of the four things.
October 29, 2019 10 p.m.