Indestructible
Asked by mrfinn 13 years ago
Can indestructible be destroyed with infect? If not is there any other ways apart from Doom Blade or Naturalize Cheers
An indestructible creature can't be destroyed. Period.
But an indestructible creature can be put into a graveyard due to state-based actions, such as having 0 toughness. This would occur if a creature with Infect dealt its otherwise-lethal damage to an indestructible creature.
If you blocked a Phyrexian Crusader with a Darksteel Myr , you Myr would have two -1/-1 counters placed on it. It would then have 0 toughness on it and would be put into your graveyard before you would have the chance to do anything.
I'm not sure what you're referring to with Doom Blade and Naturalize , but those can't get rid of indestructible creatures/artifacts, either. As long as an effect says "destroy," it won't kill anything indestructible.
January 9, 2012 2:33 p.m.
Well neither Doomblade nor Naturalize work agianst anything indestructible if thats what you were implying but yes, infect puts -1/-1 counters on creatures and when a creatures toughness is reduced to 0 it gets put in the graveyard regardless of whether it is indestructible or not. Other options include card:Geth's Verdict Tribute to Hunger card:Black Sun's Zenith or any exile effect such as Dispatch with metalcraft or Archon of Justice dieing effect.
If a permanent is indestructible, rules and effects can't destroy it. Such permanents are not destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the lethal-damage state-based effect (see rule 420.5c). Rules or effects may cause an indestructible permanent to be sacrificed, put into a graveyard, or removed from the game
In other words you can force them to sacrifice indestructible permenants or exile them, or put -1 /=1 counters on them until they reach 0 toughness.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
If a creature has 0 or less toughness, it's put into the graveyard as a state based action, and this SBA isn't a "destroy" effect. The only things that destroy are lethal damage and effects that specifically say "destroy". Indestructible protects a creature against these things, but not against anything else (0 toughness, sacrifice, exile, etc.).
January 9, 2012 2:32 p.m.