(DKA)Hollowhenge Spirit
Asked by NAPe93 13 years ago
Its ability said "when Hollowhenge Spirit enters the battlefield, remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat." What exactly remove from combat mean? (Exile?)
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2
Hollowhenge Spirit does not exile anything. Removing a creature from combat is different than removing a creature from the game.
When Hollowhenge Spirit enters the battlefield, its triggered ability goes onto the stack. The ability removes a target attacking or blocking creature from combat (it is not optional).
If you remove an attacking creature from combat, that creature is no longer an attacking creature. It will remain tapped (if it didn't have vigilance), and if you removed it from combat before the combat damage step, then it will not deal damage this combat.
If you remove a blocking creature from combat, that creature is no longer a blocking creature. Any creature(s) that the RFC'd creature was assigned to as a blocker will still be blocked, and will neither deal nor receive damage this combat unless they have trample or another creature is still blocking them.
IAmKingTony says... #1
If a creature is attacking and you drop Hollowhenge Spirit
, it's no longer attacking and you don't need to block it or whatever. I believe it would still be tapped though.
Now if it's blocking, sort of the same theory but a bit different.
A blocked creature removed from combat would still effectively block whatever it was blocking, but in the case of their bigger creature killing your smaller one or deathtouch or whatever that wouldn't happen. Also in the case of trample, all of the damage would then go through.
January 27, 2012 3:21 a.m.