What color are Nissa's elemental?
Asked by Sathanas 10 years ago
What color are the lands that are produced by [Nissa, Worldwaker] with her +1 ability and her -7 ability? The 4/4 Elementals with trample. Do they have the color of the land they are or are they considered colorless? In this case I'm wondering about the color of damage that they do.
This is all in MTGO.For a bit more information I'll set up the situation. I ulted [Nissa, Worldwaker] and then swing with all my creatures and elemental tokens that I have (they are all green or red). My opponent casts [Hunter's Ambush] and activates [Avacyn, Guardian Angel] selecting red for the color that would be prevented. Figuring that he just mis-clicked on his ability. He then produces to block a bunch of stuff and combat resolves but his creatures that are less then 4/4s die to my forest elementals but then the trample damage doesn't spill over. The game log saying that the damage was prevented.
So it begs the question if all nongreen damage was prevent by [Hunter's Ambush] and I killed creatures with my forest tokens why wasn't the trample damage spilled over? And I did go back and check and [Avacyn, Guardian Angel] had been activated for red and not green.
BboyGeologic says... #2
Lands are colorless. Hunter's Ambush prevents all damage dealt by non green creatures. His creatures blocking them shouldn't have died because all damage by them is prevented and no damage from them should have been dealt to him either.
October 4, 2014 11:25 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... Accepted answer #3
First, lands are inherently colorless. Because Nissa, Worldwaker 's ability doesn't prescribe a color, the lands remain colorless as they normally are.
Second, damage does not have a color. Rather, effects like protection care about the color of the source of the damage.
In this case, all damage should have been prevented because all creatures involved are non-green. It doesn't matter what color was selected for Avacyn, Guardian Angel 's ability.
I am not sure how MTGO works, but it's known to have bugs. Your opponent's creatures should not have died.
Sathanas says... #1
Nissa, Worldwaker Hunter's Ambush Avacyn, Guardian Angel sorry about that.
October 4, 2014 11:18 p.m.