How does Camouflage work?
Asked by NoctisSemper 11 years ago
So my friends and I were going through Limited Edition Alpha on our MTG Familar app and we saw this card called Camouflage . The errata for the card goes: Cast Camouflage only during your declare attackers step.This turn, instead of declaring blockers, each defending player chooses any number of creatures he or she controls and divides them into a number of piles equal to the number of attacking creatures for whom that player is the defending player. Creatures he or she controls that can block additional creatures may likewise be put into additional piles. Assign each pile to a different one of those attacking creatures at random. Each creature in a pile that can block the creature that pile is assigned to does so. (Piles can be empty.)Now maybe it's just my friends and I but after much discussion and reading of this card we've come to the conclusion that we have no idea what this card does. Can someone thoroughly explain what this card does to me?
NoctisSemper says... #2
Thank you very much! It was so confusing to me but your explanation allows me to understand it much clearer. Many thanks upon you.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Short answer: You choose which creatures are going to block and whether any are going to team-block with each other, but the actual blocking assignment to the attackers is done randomly. Illegal blocking assignments are ignored.
Example: Your opponent attacks with 2 Giant Octopus and you control 3 Bear Cub . Your opponent casts Camouflage . You only want to block with 2 Cubs and you want them to block together, so you make one pile of 2 Cubs and one pile of no creatures. The 2-Cub pile is randomly assigned to one of the Octopodes and the 0-pile will get assigned to the other.
The reason the original printed text of Camouflage is so different from the current Oracle text is because there are some rules problems caused by having the attacking creatures be temporarily turned face-down and shuffled around to mask their identities. To avoid those problems the text was turned around and re-phrased to instead make the defending player assign blockers randomly, which gives basically the same end result as the original text.
March 6, 2014 10:34 a.m.