Need clarification about a card ruling
Asked by theNeroTurtle 3 days ago
I am building a Absolute Virtue deck.
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From what I have looked at, in some way, it makes my opponents unable to block my creatures? I am confused about it. They aren't "unlockable", but what I have read it kind of does that or something...
Can someone clear this up for me? I feel like I understand everything else. Opponents can still declare attacks so that stuff triggers for them, but I don't take damage. My confusion is the idea that they can't block mine? Doesn't make any sense, but that is coming up when I dig into how this commander works.
theNeroTurtle says... #2
legendofa, that is how I read it too, but when I googled it, the Ai response it that people can't block my creatures. I have no idea. Seems OP to me.
January 19, 2026 8:26 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
The AI summary results you found were incorrect. With the way a Large Language Model (LLM) works, it's essentially doing a highly sophisticated autocomplete for a discussion about your topic. LLM responses are most reliable on topics with a lot of content represented in the training data. In this case, I get the feeling not enough has been written about effects that give a player "protection from opponents" for the LLM approach to give an accurate answer. It likely gave you results that were based on a combination of what's been written about protection in general as well as things written specifically about True-Name Nemesis, which would have had a lot more content built up over the years than Absolute Virtue has at this point.
January 19, 2026 9:30 a.m.
theNeroTurtle says... Accepted answer #4
Rhadamanthus, that is what I assumed, which is why I made my creature base with the shadow mechanic. After reading that I started thinking, "my creatures don't need to have shadow?".
Makes sense. Thanks
legendofa says... #1
I haven't seen any discussion on Absolute Virtue, but my reading is that it gives you protection from your opponents, but it doesn't give that same protection to your creatures or other permanents. Those can still be targeted, damaged, blocked, and enchanted as normal. I'm basing this off cards like Leyline of Sanctity or Aegis of the Gods, which gives hexproof to you but not your creatures. If AV said said something like "You and creatures you control have protection from..." that would be more in line with what you're describing.
January 19, 2026 4:24 a.m.