indestructible vs infect

Asked by Justarsaus 14 years ago

lets say i have two Knight Exemplar out and my foe has an icorclaw-myr and Hand of the Praetors out he/she swings with icorclaw, and i block with one of my knights does my knight die because of the -1/-1 counters or does the indestructible ignore the damage from the myr?

DizzyDude says... Accepted answer #1

The infect gives -1/-1 tokens on a creature, so if the indestructible creatures get enough to make the toughness 0, they would be destroyed.

September 28, 2010 12:34 a.m.

thaimaishuu says... #2

One correction on DizzyDude. The creature would not be "destroyed" because indestructible creatures can not be "destroyed." A creature with a toughness of 0 would simply be put into the graveyard because it would cease to exist.

September 28, 2010 2:14 a.m.

xeratheenigma says... #3

an indestructible creature still takes damage(indestructible creatures normally dont go to the graveyard due to lethal damage excluding wither/infect) so it would still get -1/-1 counters and as posted above if the indestructible creatures toughness equals 0 it is put into the graveyard because it ceases to exist

September 28, 2010 2:33 a.m.

cardcoin says... #4

To be honest, Ichorclaw Myr being a 4/4 attacking with infect would just own most things...

the knight would do first strike, then die to the 4 -1/-1 counters that would put the knight onto -1/-1 (Oddly enough statically your creature will be dead at this point).

So yeah, DizzyDude is almost completely correct :)

September 28, 2010 2:50 a.m.

$ªmHεiπ says... #5

no need for any of your knights to die - just block with them both - Ichorclaw Myr only gets the +2/+2 once, no matter how many creatures block it, so your 2 Knight Exemplar s would first strike and kill the Ichorclaw Myr

but that being said, yes infect kills indestructible creatures quite well.

September 28, 2010 4:17 a.m.

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