does protection from a color work against multicolor?
Asked by Gardoon 12 years ago
If i have a creature such as White Knight does it have protection from multicolored cards such as stormkirk captain?
emblasochist says... #2
[Dvious] is correct; White Knight takes no damage from Stromkirk Captain because Stromkirk Captain is both Red AND Black, and protection only cares whether the color or whatever protection the card has is one of the traits of the card you're trying to have protection from, like Horizon Drake having protection from Lands and Desert being a Land.
Dvious says... Accepted answer #1
Quick answer is: Yes, because multicolor spells count as both colors.
Long answer is:
202.2. An object is the color or colors of the mana symbols in its mana cost, regardless of the color of its frame.
702.15a Protection is a static ability, written Protection from [quality]. This quality is usually a color (as in protection from black) but can be any characteristic value. If the quality happens to be a card name, it is treated as such only if the protection ability specifies that the quality is a name. If the quality is a card type, subtype, or supertype, the ability applies to sources that are permanents with that card type, subtype, or supertype and to any sources not on the battlefield that are of that card type, subtype, or supertype.
October 10, 2012 11:42 p.m.