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Title: Indestructible
Post by: Hakuu on June 13, 2012, 01:56:00 PM
My buddy got some indestructible cards, how am I supposed to kill these things if it can't be destroyed and lethal damage doesn't work?
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Kuberr on June 13, 2012, 01:57:00 PM
Quote from: Hakuu on June 13, 2012, 01:56:00 PM
My buddy got some indestructible cards, how am I supposed to kill these things if it can't be destroyed and lethal damage doesn't work?

-1/-1 counters kill them.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: GoJuDragon on June 13, 2012, 01:57:12 PM
{Black suns zenith}
{Tragic slip}
{Dismember}
Stuff like that
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Imdowd80 on June 13, 2012, 01:58:29 PM
Negative counters (infect). {oblivion ring} mass removal spells. Force him to sacrifice a creature. Eldrazi with annihilator
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: scarsabrex on June 13, 2012, 02:13:05 PM
Quote from: Imdowd80 on June 13, 2012, 01:58:29 PM
Negative counters (infect). {oblivion ring} mass removal spells. Force him to sacrifice a creature. Eldrazi with annihilator

mass removal that say destroy don't work fyi.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Kuberr on June 13, 2012, 02:14:31 PM
Quote from: scarsabrex on June 13, 2012, 02:13:05 PM
Quote from: Imdowd80 on June 13, 2012, 01:58:29 PM
Negative counters (infect). {oblivion ring} mass removal spells. Force him to sacrifice a creature. Eldrazi with annihilator

mass removal that say destroy don't work fyi.

{Terminus}
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: scarsabrex on June 13, 2012, 02:16:41 PM
i specified that say destroy. i didn't say all mass removal does not work.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: BlackJester on June 13, 2012, 02:20:50 PM
{Geth's Verdict} and {Barter in Blood} effects work too.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Kuberr on June 13, 2012, 02:21:02 PM
And that's my response to you. Lol
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: scarsabrex on June 13, 2012, 02:22:33 PM
you respondd with an agreement?
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Gorzo on June 13, 2012, 03:27:39 PM
The short version:

Exile.
Reduce its toughness to 0.
Force it's controller to sacrifice it.

You just can't use damage or "destroy" effects, is all.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Hakuu on June 13, 2012, 07:44:44 PM
Ok now that I know that you can kill them with neg counters, how do I prove that to him? I've been reading in the rule book and it doesn't say anything about it.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: scarsabrex on June 13, 2012, 07:47:37 PM
indrstructible says this creature cannot be destroyed.

-x/-x shenanigans don't destroy.

rules say if a creature has 0 toughness it goes to the graveyard.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: BlackJester on June 13, 2012, 08:07:17 PM
Quote from: Hakuu on June 13, 2012, 07:44:44 PM
Ok now that I know that you can kill them with neg counters, how do I prove that to him? I've been reading in the rule book and it doesn't say anything about it.
I'll get you started:

700.4. If a permanent is indestructible, rules and effects can't destroy it. (See rule 701.6, "Destroy.") Such permanents are not destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the lethal-damage state-based action (see rule 704.5g). Rules or effects may cause an indestructible permanent to be sacrificed, put into a graveyard, or exiled.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Gorzo on June 13, 2012, 11:19:08 PM
Quote from: Hakuu on June 13, 2012, 07:44:44 PM
Ok now that I know that you can kill them with neg counters, how do I prove that to him? I've been reading in the rule book and it doesn't say anything about it.

It's not just counters, either. Anything applying negative attributes to toughness that reduces it to 0 or less, from infect/wither/counters, to "until end of turn" spells like {grasp of darkness}, to static enchantments like {curse of death's hold} or one's own {heartless summoning}.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Deathstorm on June 14, 2012, 03:54:58 PM
Swords to plough shares would also get rid of them
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: scarsabrex on June 14, 2012, 05:35:03 PM
falls under exile
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Hakuu on June 14, 2012, 10:45:59 PM
So creatures with infect wil kill indestructible creatures?
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: BlackJester on June 14, 2012, 10:50:32 PM
Quote from: Hakuu on June 14, 2012, 10:45:59 PM
So creatures with infect wil kill indestructible creatures?
yup.
Title: Re: Indestructible
Post by: Hakuu on June 14, 2012, 10:53:26 PM
Sweet
Thanks agian guys