Diminish
Asked by xo2 13 years ago
What would happen if my oppOnent cast Diminish on my Batterskull carrying germ token? Would it just be a 1/1 or would it become a 5/5 because of Batterskull?
Rhadamanthus says... #2
OmegaSerris is right. Effects that set P/T to a specific value are always applied before effects that modify P/T with +/-. Diminish sets the germ to 1/1, and then Batterskull gives it the usual +4/+4 on top of that. The rules about this interaction haven't always worked like this, so a player who learned to play several years ago and hasn't kept up with all the updates (or a player who learned from another player like that) might have the wrong idea about it.
OmegaSerris says... Accepted answer #1
Believe it or not, you would actually be boosting it to a 5/5.
Due to the way layers work within the game, Diminish
only effects the base attributes of the targeted creature (in this case, a 0/0 Germ Token). This means it will become a 1/1 Germ. The effect of the equipment are applied on another layer and remain unaffected by Diminish, allowing it to pump the 1/1 Germ to a 5/5. The same is true for Counters (like +1/+1 counters) and static effects like Glorious Anthem
.
March 23, 2012 8:21 a.m.