How Shield counters and totem armor interact?

Asked by pedroedmarcos 1 year ago

So, let's say that I have Mulldrifter and it has a Hyena Umbra, and a shield counter from Boon of Safety and then gets a Doom Blade on the face. Do I get to choose between the counter or the umbra? Or will they both leave?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

You get to choose. Totem Armor and Shield counters both function as replacement effects. If multiple replacement effects could be applied to a single event, the affected player or controller of the affected object (or owner, if it doesn't have a controller) chooses which one to apply. If the modified event could also have some replacement effect applied to it then you continue making these decisions until there's nothing left to apply.

In your example, once you apply one of the replacement effects then the creature isn't getting destroyed anymore, so there's nothing for the other effect to apply to.

December 23, 2022 11:09 a.m.