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Protection from X just doesn`t allow the permanent to get targeted by the X colored spell or recieve damage from or become blocked by the X colored creature. World spells like Pyroclasm, Earthquake, Damnation still affect the creature, because it doesn`t get targeted. Also if a X colored spell/creature forces you to sacrifice a creature, you may sacrifice the creature with protection from color X, because the spell doesn`t target the creature, but you.

[QUOTE=KuroRyuuD]Protection from X just doesn`t allow the permanent to get targeted by the X colored spell or recieve damage from or become blocked by the X colored creature. World spells like Pyroclasm, Earthquake, Damnation still affect the creature, because it doesn`t get targeted. Also if a X colored spell/creature forces you to sacrifice a creature, you may sacrifice the creature with protection from color X, because the spell doesn`t target the creature, but you.[/QUOTE]


Aah, so my paladin could get killed by red damage, as long as it's a world spell, not a direct damage spell.

Thanks for the info!

Actually, protection is DEBT, Damage, Effects, Blocking, and Targeting, so your paladin would not take damage. However, if Damnation was cast, your paladin would be dead.

^ hmm, always thought that world damage spells also affect creatures with protection, ok, thanks also.

OMG you guys wont believe this but I know what else targets a protected creature.. =(

The daughter of a friend of my mom. Let me explain... I was messing around with my cards doing draw samples and I had them laid out since yesterday by my computer. Well I "had" a needle specter with a whispersilk cloak on it. I came home to find out she was on my computer playing games and my specter was torn in two.

So that is something else that can kill any protected creature :( I found this ironic, because I read the posts and see this one. I start kind of laughing, but in a sad manner. Sigh.... at least it wasnt the nantuko shade or my basilisk collar I just got in or even my 3 wrath of gods I had laying a little higher by my monitor..geez

Torn in two? That's above and beyond a general disregard; that's a display of malice! Did you check under your covers for a horse's head?

Simple solution, does the girl get an allowance?

she is six lol Nope

[QUOTE=KuroRyuuD]^ hmm, always thought that world damage spells also affect creatures with protection, ok, thanks also.[/QUOTE]

World spells don't target so you've bypast that but if a creature with protection from red gets damage from a red source indirectly it's still damage from a red source from which it is protected. So pyroclasm would not work. The reason damnation works is because protection doesn't protect against destruction so the color of the source does not matter.

That makes perfect sense, thanks for the info Seth!

And I'm sorry to hear about your needle spectre thedaringpastry, a sad way to go for the card! :D