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OhioGuy

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Oct 12, 2008, 11:23:48 PM10/12/08
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Would adding the land "Arena" help me out with the cards that have
protection from a color?

Arena lets you pay 3, then each person picks a creature and each creature
does their power in damage to the other.

Would the fact that my opponent has a card with protection from my power
stop this from working?


Zoe Stephenson

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Oct 13, 2008, 4:22:30 AM10/13/08
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OhioGuy <no...@none.net> sent:

> Would adding the land "Arena" help me out with the cards that have
> protection from a color?

> Arena lets you pay 3, then each person picks a creature and each creature
> does their power in damage to the other.

Arena Land
{3}, {T}: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an
opponent's choice he or she controls. Each of those creatures deals
damage equal to its power to the other.

> Would the fact that my opponent has a card with protection from my power
> stop this from working?

The ability makes the creatures deal the damage, hence the damage will
be prevented if there's protection from the creature's color.

If you really want to get some colorless damage going, you need
something like Ghostfire, Mouth of Ronom or Moonglove Extract.

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David DeLaney

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Oct 13, 2008, 8:19:53 AM10/13/08
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Arena Land
3,Tap: Tap target creature you control and target creature of an opponent's


choice he or she controls. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its
power to the other.

Note that this does NOT say "Arena deals damage equal to each of those
creatures' power to the other creature". The creatures are dealing the damage
to each other. It is not COMBAT damage, but protection-from doesn't care
whether damage is combat damage or not when it's checking whether to prevent
it - it just checks what the damage is -from-. So if your opponent's creature
has protection from your creature's color, the damage Arena makes your
creature try to deal to their creature will be prevented.

So no, this won't really help you very much in that situation.

Dave
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Topi Linkala

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Jul 27, 2012, 12:54:35 PM7/27/12
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Yes it would as the damage comes from the creature.

Topi

David DeLaney

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Jul 27, 2012, 4:15:16 PM7/27/12
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(Assuming OhioGuy means 'protection from my creature's color' instead.)

Note that this doesn't stop the Arena from targetting the creatures, it
just prevents the damage your creature would deal to the other creature,
but does NOT stop the other creature from damaging YOUR creature.

If the opponent's creature had "protection from lands" instead, then you
couldn't pick it as a target for Arena's power in the first place.

There isn't anything with "protection from power" in Magic.
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