My friend believes that artifact creatures can only be blocked by other artifact creatures. Is he correct?
No he's incorrect. Artifact creatures can just be affected by artifact destruction cards like {Ancient Grudge} or creature destruction cards like {Doom Blade}. They have the benefit and the drawback of both types. That's the main difference.
Wow! No. I have know idea where that might have come from. ???
Shadow creatures ({Augur il-Vec}) can only block other shadow creatures.
Artifact creatures can block creatures with fear ({Crowd of Cinders}) or creatures with intimidate ({Brain Weevil}).
But a plain old arti critter can be blocked just like any other critter.
Thanks. I thought so, but i just wanted to make sure.
That is if the creature has intimidate.
702.12b A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.
If a black creature has intimidate, isn't it the same as if it had fear? I know this only works for black creatures so, why would a black creature have intimidate?
Quote from: JaCe BeLeReN on April 30, 2012, 03:28:21 PM
If a black creature has intimidate, isn't it the same as if it had fear? I know this only works for black creatures so, why would a black creature have intimidate?
because they wanted a keyword that wasn't black specific but still worked for black
Quote from: scarsabrex on April 30, 2012, 03:34:09 PM
Quote from: JaCe BeLeReN on April 30, 2012, 03:28:21 PM
If a black creature has intimidate, isn't it the same as if it had fear? I know this only works for black creatures so, why would a black creature have intimidate?
because they wanted a keyword that wasn't black specific but still worked for black
Then why did they make fear?
Quote from: JaCe BeLeReN on April 30, 2012, 03:28:21 PM
If a black creature has intimidate, isn't it the same as if it had fear? I know this only works for black creatures so, why would a black creature have intimidate?
{Blind Seer} could make a creature with intimidate blue and block it. Can't do that with fear.
Ohhh..... Ok