Protection from all colors

Asked by Robomaster 10 years ago

So lets say i have a creature with protection from all colors. And the opponent has a colored creature with a ability that says 1: Sacrifice creature and destroy target artifact. Since the ability needs a colorless mana to activate it can it affect my creature with protection?

pskinn01 says... #1

The ability has the color of the permanent in play. The cost of the ability does not matter when it comes to protection only the color of the permanent that the ability comes from. But unless the creature is an artifact creature, the ability would not be able to target it anyway.

July 4, 2014 10 p.m.

pskinn01 says... Accepted answer #2

The ability has the color of the permanent in play. The cost of the ability does not matter when it comes to protection, only the color of the permanent that the ability comes from. So if the ability is from a colored permanent, it can not target a creature with protection from all colors.

But unless the creature is an artifact creature, the ability would not be able to target it anyway.

left out punctuation. and thought I would clear up my explanation.

July 4, 2014 10:01 p.m.

Gidgetimer says... #3

Spells and permanents are the color of any color in their mana cost as well as any modifications made by color indicators or rules text. Abilities are the color of the spell or permanent that the ability originated from. So Woodripper 's ability couldn't target say Etched Champion with metalcraft since the ability would be green.

July 4, 2014 10:17 p.m.

Robomaster says... #4

Okay got it, thanks for clearing that up!!

July 4, 2014 10:52 p.m.

Epochalyptik says... #5

@Gidgetimer: The ability itself has no color because color is not a characteristic of abilities. Rather, the source has a color characteristic, and that is used for things like protection.

July 6, 2014 2:50 a.m.