Echo + Regeneration
Jamie Gibson
If a creature has Echo, and you forget to play it, can it be
regenerated at the point when it would be sacrificed? (with for example
Broken Fall)
Cheers,
Jamie Gibson
Norbert Adam
> If a creature has Echo, and you forget to play it, can it be
> regenerated at the point when it would be sacrificed?
No, there is nothing that can prevent a creature from being sacrificed.
Regeneration itself is defined to prevent lethal damage and destruction
only. A sacrifice is neither the one nor the other.
Norbert
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Joshua Bardwell
<vea...@netscape.net> wrote:
>No, there is nothing that can prevent a creature from being sacrificed.
Absolutely correct. "Sacrifice X" means "Take X from play, put it
into the graveyard." No destruction effect is involved.
>Regeneration itself is defined to prevent lethal damage and destruction
>only. A sacrifice is neither the one nor the other.
A slight nit: regeneration is defined to prevent destruction only.
However, there is a state-based effect (rule 420.5c) that states that
creatures with lethal damage are destroyed, so regeneration can save a
creature with lethal damage.
J
Steve Lord
> Hi all,
> If a creature has Echo, and you forget to play it, can it be
> regenerated at the point when it would be sacrificed? (with for example
> Broken Fall)
No, no, NO.
Regeneration replaces _destruction_. A sacrifice is NOT, repeat NOT a
destruction. Therefore regeneration does NOTHING to stop it.
The Echo creature for which you forgot to pay is sacrificed; it is in the
graveyard immediately thereafter.
Steve L
David DeLaney
> If a creature has Echo, and you forget to play it, can it be
>regenerated at the point when it would be sacrificed? (with for example
>Broken Fall)
No. First off, you can't do -anything- while the Echo is resolving,
other than what it asks you to do (and, because it's asking you to pay
mana, you can use mana abilities). So you can't 'regenerate it right then'.
And, even if you regenerated it in response to the Echo, that won't help one
bit; sacrificed things don't regenerate - they get put into owner's graveyard
directly. They aren't destroyed, so regeneration shields don't -stop- this in
any way; you can't -stop- a sacrifice from happening by regeneration.
Dave
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