infect and regenerate
Asked by Sagi007 12 years ago
infect creature attacks and becomes blocked by opponent creature that creature is supposed to die but regenerate activates.
will this creature still die due to infect counters or does it live due to regenerate removing fatal damage.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #2
Regeneration doesn't prevent damage, it removes marked damage. Though marked damage is usually the result of damage being dealt, a source with Infect or Wither has -1/-1 counters as a result instead. -1/-1 counters will be placed on the blocker when damage is dealt, and regeneration will do nothing to save it if the creature now has 0 or less toughness, because there's no marked damage to remove and death from 0 or less toughness isn't a "destroy" event.
sigh166 says... #1
614.8. Regeneration is a destruction-replacement effect. The word instead doesnt appear on the card but is implicit in the definition of regeneration. Regenerate [permanent] means The next time [permanent] would be destroyed this turn, instead remove all damage marked on it and tap it. If its an attacking or blocking creature, remove it from combat. Abilities that trigger from damage being dealt still trigger even if the permanent regenerates. See rule 701.11.
In short, I assume that the damage is prevented and said regenerated creature is removed from combat, so it still lives. However poison counters can't be removed unless you have a card that says otherwise.
August 23, 2012 12:54 p.m.