Does Protection Work In The Graveyard?

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You can cast Animate Dead on a creature card with protection from black because

protection doesn’t work in the graveyard

. The creature will return to the battlefield and protection starts working again, so Animate Dead will go to the graveyard immediately.

What does Hexproof protect against?

Hexproof is an evergreen keyword ability that prevents

a permanent or player from being the target of spells or abilities played by opponents

.

Does Hexproof work in the graveyard?

Giving yourself hexproof

stops cards that target players

. It doesn’t stop global effects, continuous effects, or effects that target cards in graveyards. Carrying removal stops continuous or repeatable effects or baits artifacts into activating.

Does shroud work in the graveyard?


yes that works

. the shroud isn’t “on” when the creature is in the graveyard.

Can you activate abilities from the graveyard?

Activated abilities are usually found on permanents, but can sometimes be used on cards in other zones, such as the graveyard or a player’s hand.

Only an object’s controller (or owner, if it has no controller)

can activate its activated abilities unless the ability says otherwise.

Does protection from white stop wrath of God?

Yes, Wrath of God will kill all creatures with shroud.

It will also kill all creatures that have protection from white

. It won’t kill creatures that are indestructible. To understand why this is, you have to look at the definitions of the terms.

Can you regenerate a sacrificed creature?

1) Regeneration only works when a permanent is destroyed, or dealt lethal damage.

It’s not possible to regenerate from a sacrifice

, because it doesn’t use the word “destroy”.

Can you target a creature in the graveyard with shroud?

Shroud only affects creatures on the battlefield.

The Sphinx can be targeted

while in the graveyard.

Does shroud protect from Deathtouch?


Deathtouch does no such thing

, and does not interact with shroud. Indeed, deathtouch is a static ability, and therefore cannot target.

Can you tap a creature with shroud?

dawnglare invoker This creature cant be use to tap creatures with shroud right?

Yes, it can

. Dawnglare Invokers ability does not use the word “target,” therefore it does not target.

Does Deathtouch work on Planeswalker?

Planeswalkers that are not also

creatures have no interaction with Deathtouch

. They just take damage and lose loyalty counters as normal. Planeswalkers are never treated as creatures, and they are never treated as players. They are a permanent type as different from creatures as creatures are from enchantments.

Can I use activated abilities on my opponent’s turn?


Yep

. If they have an ability that would do so, there is nothing stopping them (aside from Summoning Sickness, targeting, the usual). Unless you are playing with Area of Effect.

Can you activate mana abilities as instants?

In most cases, players can only play sorceries, enchantments, creatures, artifacts, planeswalkers and lands on their turn. Instants and Abilities

can be played on anyone’s turn

, as long as the ability does not say it is used as a sorcery.

Does First Strike negate Deathtouch?

Creatures with deathtouch deal damage during the regular combat damage step. Fortunately, if you block a creature with deathtouch with a creature with first strike or double strike,

your creature will deal damage during the first strike damage step

, before the deathtouch creature can return fire.

Does protection from white stop destroy all?

4 Answers.

Yes

, Day of Judgement will destroy a creature with Protection from White.

Can you regenerate after wrath of God?

As long as that Wrath-type effect doesn’t disallow regeneration,

yes

, regenerating Thrun in response will keep him alive.

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