Diregraf Captain Question

Asked by polydeuces17 8 years ago

Hey, my friend runs a blue and black zombie deck with Diregraf Captain and Unbreathing Horde , when we play he says the diregraf captains +1+1 makes the horde indestructible. For instance when the horde takes damage while he has the captain on the field he doesn't even move down the counter on the horde. He does the same thing with Noosegraf Mob constantly putting 2/2 zombies on the field. Is this how it really works?

MollyMab says... Accepted answer #1

This should be a rules question. Not in the tappedout section.

From gatherer "If Unbreathing Horde has no +1/+1 counters on it (but its toughness is raised above 0 by another effect), any damage dealt to it will still be prevented, even though no counter will be removed."

So it isn't indestructible for the given value of that, but Unbreathing Horde will prevent all damage dealt to it.

As for Noosegraf Mob, from Gatherer "If Noosegraf Mob is no longer on the battlefield or no longer has +1/+1 counters on it as its triggered ability resolves, you cant remove a counter from it and wont get a Zombie token.".

The +1/+1 value from Diregraf Captain isn't a counter so when all the counters are removed from Horde, you will just have a 1/1 who doesn't make tokens.

December 10, 2016 6:13 a.m.