Absolute Virtue

Legendary Creature — Avatar Warrior

This spell can't be countered.

Flying

You have protection from each of your opponents. ((Remember the acronym debt.) This can't be damaged, enchanted, equipped, blocked or targeted by anything controlled by your opponents. Anything controlled by your opponents attached to this immediately falls off.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (13)

Hydr0x on Treefolk-Traditional

4 months ago

d00d, Absolute Virtue

Rhadamanthus on Card interaction Question for Commander

8 months ago

You're going to risk confusing yourself more if you think about things "targeting" when they don't actually target, because the word "target" has a specific rules meaning and whether or not something actually targets matters a lot for various card interactions and rules interactions. Declaring an attacking creature does not target. Any effect that does not specifically use the word "target" in its rules text (either printed on the card or packed into the rules for a keyword ability on the card) does not target.

The easy way to remember the full effects of protection is with the letters DEBT:

• Damage is prevented
• Enchanting/Equipping is not allowed (or Fortifying, but that's just one weird card from Future Sight)
• Blocking is not allowed
• Targeting is not allowed

The reminder text on Absolute Virtue summarizes the above and leaves out blocking since it doesn't matter (you, the player sitting there in real life, can't attack so it's irrelevant whether something can block you).

theNeroTurtle on test

8 months ago

hello

theNeroTurtle on test

8 months ago

Absolute Virtue

Decree of Silence Nine Lives Rest in Peace Solemnity Web of Inertia

An Offer You Can't Refuse Counterspell Cyclonic RiftGC Dovin's Veto Fierce GuardianshipGC Force of Negation Force of WillGC Mana Drain Oblation Pact of Negation Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares

Lightning Greaves Swiftfoot Boots

Boromir, Warden of the Tower Giver of Runes Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC Mother of Runes Pippin, Guard of the Citadel Selfless Savior Skrelv, Defector Mite Vexilus Praetor

Academy Ruins Adarkar Wastes Ancient TombGC Command Tower Deserted Beach Flooded Strand Floodfarm Verge Gemstone Caverns Glacial Fortress Hall of Heliod's Generosity Hallowed Fountain Island Kor Haven Mana Confluence Maze of Ith Meteor Crater Mystic Gate Nimbus Maze Plains Prahv, Spires of Order Reflecting Pool Rogue's Passage Sea of Clouds Tundra

Dovin, Grand Arbiter Land Tax Rhystic StudyGC Smothering TitheGC Tithe

Arcane Signet Chrome MoxGC Grim MonolithGC Mana VaultGC Mox Amber Mox DiamondGC Mox Opal Sol Ring

Augur il-Vec Hunted Phantasm Infiltrator il-Kor Invisible Stalker Latch Seeker Looter il-Kor Soltari Champion Soltari Crusader Soltari Foot Soldier Soltari Lancer Soltari Monk Soltari Priest Soltari Trooper Soltari Visionary Spirit en-Dal Thalakos Deceiver Thalakos Dreamsower Thalakos Mistfolk Thalakos Scout Thalakos Seer Thalakos Sentry Zealot il-Vec

Academy Rector Enlightened TutorGC Idyllic Tutor IntuitionGC Mystical TutorGC

theNeroTurtle on

8 months ago

Absolute Virtue

Decree of Silence Nine Lives Rest in Peace Solemnity Web of Inertia

An Offer You Can't Refuse Counterspell Cyclonic RiftGC Dovin's Veto Fierce GuardianshipGC Force of Negation Force of WillGC Mana Drain Oblation Pact of Negation Path to Exile Swords to Plowshares

Lightning Greaves Swiftfoot Boots

Boromir, Warden of the Tower Giver of Runes Grand Arbiter Augustin IVGC Mother of Runes Pippin, Guard of the Citadel Selfless Savior Skrelv, Defector Mite Vexilus Praetor

Academy Ruins Adarkar Wastes Ancient TombGC Command Tower Deserted Beach Flooded Strand Floodfarm Verge Gemstone Caverns Glacial Fortress Hall of Heliod's Generosity Hallowed Fountain Island Kor Haven Mana Confluence Maze of Ith Meteor Crater Mystic Gate Nimbus Maze Plains Prahv, Spires of Order Reflecting Pool Rogue's Passage Sea of Clouds Tundra

Dovin, Grand Arbiter Land Tax Rhystic StudyGC Smothering TitheGC Tithe

Arcane Signet Chrome MoxGC Grim MonolithGC Mana VaultGC Mox Amber Mox DiamondGC Mox Opal Sol Ring

Augur il-Vec Hunted Phantasm Infiltrator il-Kor Invisible Stalker Latch Seeker Looter il-Kor Soltari Champion Soltari Crusader Soltari Foot Soldier Soltari Lancer Soltari Monk Soltari Priest Soltari Trooper Soltari Visionary Spirit en-Dal Thalakos Deceiver Thalakos Dreamsower Thalakos Mistfolk Thalakos Scout Thalakos Seer Thalakos Sentry Zealot il-Vec

Academy Rector Enlightened TutorGC Idyllic Tutor IntuitionGC Mystical TutorGC

legendofa on Card interaction Question for Commander

8 months ago

As long as you have protection from opponents, you can't be targeted by any spell or ability your opponents control. So for the planeswalker example, your opponent can't choose you as a target to begin with. For an outside case like Kaya, Spirits' Justice's -2, only your creature is being targeted, not you, so it would still be exiled.

Annihilator isn't a targeting ability (it doesn't use the word "target" in its rules text or reminder text), and neither is attacking. A creature with annihilator (e.g. Ulamog's Crusher) can attack you through Absolute Virtue, and you will still sacrifice your stuff. You just won't take any damage from that creature.

theNeroTurtle on Card interaction Question for Commander

8 months ago

I have already asked about Absolute Virtue before. I can not be directly effected, but here is the question... can I still be targeted?

For example, someone can resolve a loyalty counter on a planeswalker with me as the target... it just doesn't do anything. Same thing with attacking... I can be targeted with attacking creatures during an attack phase so that triggers may occur, but won't take damage. Is this correct?

The reason I ask this is because my pod plays annihilator a lot. I want to be sure they can still target me with an attack, which would still resolve the annihilator obviously, but since I have protection, that doesn't mean they still can't target me during attack phase for triggers to occur, right?

That is what I would think. Just checking.

Rhadamanthus on Need clarification about a card …

9 months ago

The AI summary results you found were incorrect. With the way a Large Language Model (LLM) works, it's essentially doing a highly sophisticated autocomplete for a discussion about your topic. LLM responses are most reliable on topics with a lot of content represented in the training data. In this case, I get the feeling not enough has been written about effects that give a player "protection from opponents" for the LLM approach to give an accurate answer. It likely gave you results that were based on a combination of what's been written about protection in general as well as things written specifically about True-Name Nemesis, which would have had a lot more content built up over the years than Absolute Virtue has at this point.