Defender Deck Combos

Asked by WUBRG97 9 years ago

Hi

I have made a Defender deck, (W, B & G) and i have som questions depending on the different effects.

Link to Deck: My Deck

  1. I have Tree of Redemption. on the battlefield along with a Stalwart Shield Bearers.. What happens if i tap Tree of Redemption, my life will become 15 due to Stalwart Shield Bearers. effect. What will happen to Tree of Redemption. new toughness, will it be 20 if my life was full or will it become 22, if Stalwart Shield Bearers. effect works again. Will I in some way then be able to gain 28 life and have a toughness of 21 on Tree of Redemption. by tapping enough and having 4 Stalwart Shield Bearers.?

  2. I am having trouble with some spells and abilities with Wall of Denial, obviously i can't tagret it with spells, but will the spells and abilities with tagrets all of my creatures with defender work on it. I am thinking about all of these effects:

  3. Assault Formation

  4. Axebane Guardian

  5. Perimeter Captain.

  6. Stalwart Shield Bearers

  7. Wakestone Gargoyle

Will these effects work on Wall of Denial ?, If so which one will and which ones won't.

Boza says... #1

  1. 9/22/2011: Any toughness-modifying effects, counters, Auras, or Equipment will apply after its toughness is set to your former life total. For example, say Tree of Redemption is enchanted with Spectral Flight (which makes it 2/15) and your life total is 7. After the exchange, Tree of Redemption would be a 2/9 creature (its toughness became 7, which was then modified by Spectral Flight) and your life total would be 15.

Always check Gatherer for answers of some of the more common questions about cards. The interaction you put forth cannot happen, as static buffs as the one of shieldbearers always applies after the Toughness of the Tree has been set to your life total.

2-7 Shroud and hexproof only care about targets. Anything that does not target (like cards 3-7) does not care about shroud or hexproof.

July 17, 2015 9:47 a.m.

filledelanuit says... Accepted answer #2

  1. When you activate Tree of Redemption's ability your life total will be Tree of Redemption's toughness (including the +2) and Tree of Redemption's new toughness will be your old life total + 2. This is because Stalwart Shield-Bearers have a static ability that always applies on the battlefield.

  2. Unless an ability actually says target then it does not target. So all of the cards you listed work just fine with Wall of Denial because the don't say target.

July 17, 2015 9:49 a.m.

BlueScope says... #3

Just a little nitpicking: Your deck is WUG, not WBG - that would be white, black and green.

And more specific regarding 2.: Spells usually don't target every creature - they target none (such as Languish). Spells only target when they explicitly use the word target. Overload makes this very clear: Electrickery

July 17, 2015 9:57 a.m.

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