Pariah's Shield question
OhioGuy
be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.
My question is this: if you attach this to a creature with regenerate,
does this effectively mean you are immune to direct creature damage, unless
an opponent finds a way to detach the shield?
OhioGuy
David DeLaney
Not exactly. Yes, it diverts the damage onto the creature, and you can
regenerate the creature before it dies from lethal damage, which removes the
damage in the process of replacing the destruction ... but _generally_ you
have to _pay_ something to get the regeneration to work. And you may not be
able to pay enough times to keep saving the creature.
(Note also that this 'redirects' ALL damage that would be dealt to you, not
just 'direct creature damage'; a Lightning Bolt targetting you would end up
dealing 3 to the creature's head, etc etc.)
So they'd have to: get rid of the artifact somehow; get rid of the creature
in a way that didn't allow it to regenerate (at which point the PS equipment
detaches and stays in play); do stuff to you that doesn't involve damage -
poison counters, for example; or do stuff to you (or to the creature) that
keeps you from being able to regenerate it. For four main ways to get around
this.
Dave
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> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:55:17 -0400, OhioGuy <n...@none.net> wrote:
> > Pariah's Shield is an artifact equipment that says all damage that would
> >be dealt to you is dealt to equipped creature instead.
>
> > My question is this: if you attach this to a creature with regenerate,
> >does this effectively mean you are immune to direct creature damage, unless
> >an opponent finds a way to detach the shield?
>
> Not exactly. Yes, it diverts the damage onto the creature, and you can
> regenerate the creature before it dies from lethal damage, which removes the
> damage in the process of replacing the destruction ... but _generally_ you
> have to _pay_ something to get the regeneration to work. And you may not be
> able to pay enough times to keep saving the creature.
It may also be noted that an even better version of this trick is
_explicitly_ noted as valid in a recent MTG product. The white tenth
edition theme deck "Cho-Manno's Revenge" has a character immune to
damage, and a Pariah card to direct all damage from the player to any
character, and the documentation with the deck explicitly says you can
direct all your damage magically to the legendary Cho-Manno which
means that it goes for naught.
While the instructions ask "how can you lose", of course there are
cards that say "eliminate target enchantment" and similar things.
The reason that Cho-Manno never suffers any damage, though, is
presumably because he is a wily guerilla fighter who is never where
you look for him; so it isn't really very realistic that he should
also be able to avoid damage directed to him by a Pariah spell -
unless he evaded having the Pariah spell successfully cast against
him. I suppose trying to account for that sort of thing, though, would
make the card texts too complicated.
So, yes, you can definitely use Pariah to direct your damage to
something that is going to resist that damage in some way.
John Savard
Topi Linkala
Topi
David DeLaney
regenerated", you could still redirect the damage to the Shielded creature,
but you might lose the creature in the process. But in general, for regular
damage, yes, you can regenerate the creature before whatever's making the
damage get dealt to you hits you, then use the Shield.