midnightAce
10-06-2007, 03:07 PM
So here is the situation I encoutered at my local tournement last night:
Board situation - me with two Lions, and a Mother of Runes (summoning sickness).
He casts a Pestilence on his turn, and activating it once.
In response to his activation, I played Shining Shoal, removing a Silver Knight, choosing his Pestilence as the source.
So now the question is, do I get to choose which creatures I save? Can I choose to save only one creature and redirect the 1 dmg dealt to me?
Now if I had an Angel in my hand and removed that instead, I can redirect the next six damage. The Pestilence right now is only dealing 5 damage, (him, me, 1 to each creature, he has no creatures on the board), so...
a) do I have to prevent all 5?
b) say after my Shoal resolved, he activates the Pestilence again, do I still get to prevent 1 or 2 damage? (depending on the outcome of part a)
We compared the Shoal's wording to Circile of Protection wordings, and did not arrive at any conclusion. The player that played this particular MBC deck would like an explination as well. So if anyone is willing to walk us through this mess, that would be greatly appreciated.
Board situation - me with two Lions, and a Mother of Runes (summoning sickness).
He casts a Pestilence on his turn, and activating it once.
In response to his activation, I played Shining Shoal, removing a Silver Knight, choosing his Pestilence as the source.
So now the question is, do I get to choose which creatures I save? Can I choose to save only one creature and redirect the 1 dmg dealt to me?
Now if I had an Angel in my hand and removed that instead, I can redirect the next six damage. The Pestilence right now is only dealing 5 damage, (him, me, 1 to each creature, he has no creatures on the board), so...
a) do I have to prevent all 5?
b) say after my Shoal resolved, he activates the Pestilence again, do I still get to prevent 1 or 2 damage? (depending on the outcome of part a)
We compared the Shoal's wording to Circile of Protection wordings, and did not arrive at any conclusion. The player that played this particular MBC deck would like an explination as well. So if anyone is willing to walk us through this mess, that would be greatly appreciated.