Detaining

[ducttapetitan]

Can you detain an enchantment aura?

[scarsabrex]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

[ducttapetitan]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

Can you detain stab wound?

[ChrisRodriguez]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

Can you detain stab wound?

No because that's a triggered ability not an activated ability.

[scarsabrex]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

Can you detain stab wound?

No because that's a triggered ability not an activated ability.

Rather yes he can but it won't stop any of stab wounds abilities.

[ducttapetitan]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

Can you detain stab wound?

No because that's a triggered ability not an activated ability.

What's the difference?

[Jroch314]

Yes though it won't particularly be helpful most of the time.

Can you detain stab wound?

No because that's a triggered ability not an activated ability.

What's the difference?

An activated ability is COST:EFFECT and the colon is present on the card. See {Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage}. A triggered ability is When this happens, then that happens. See {Worldspine Wurm}.

[Wally]

I think the question was more, what's the difference of being able to target it and it won't do anything, and not being able to target it.

If you can target a permanent and if it is a valid target, you can indeed target it. Whether I will do anything or not as a result of being targeted is a totally different matter. :)

[Maximo]

Well we can answer the question he asked, or we can answer the question he meant to ask.

[scarsabrex]

Or we can answer both.

[ducttapetitan]

Both plaese😄

[Greg54js]

Detaining an o ring does nothing right?

[scarsabrex]

Correct

[Greg54js]

Correct

Dammit. Detain why couldn't you be more broken....