Mikaeus the Un-hallowed? More like Mikeus the Mostly-Useless.

Asked by kobold_thief 13 years ago

If Mikaeus, the Unhallowed grants all your non-humans undying and +1/+1, won't that make undying not trigger? If this isn't the case, do "buffs" from other creatures not count as +1/+1 counters at all?

(You would think wizards would have that of a better way of handling this, I mean, eyeball counters? Come, on.)

rckclimber777 says... #1

A static effect such as Mikaeus's +1/+1 buff are not counters. Counters are a separate effect entirely. So no mikaeus is not useless. In fact it's pretty effective as it eliminates humans gives your creatures a constant buff and makes them annoying to get rid of.

January 25, 2012 11:19 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #2

An effect does not involve counters of any kind unless it specifically uses the word "counter." In this case, Mikaeus gives a static +1/+1 buff to non-human creatures you control. This effect does not put counters on those creatures. Therefore, Undying will work for each of them so long as they don't have any +1/+1 counters from other sources.

January 25, 2012 11:21 p.m.