Does Sacrificing Affect Indestructible?
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Sacrificing a creature does not destroy it, and therefore, indestructible does not prevent a creature from being sacrificed, as sacrificing only places the permanent into its owner’s graveyard without destroying it. This means that indestructible creatures can still be exiled, sacrificed, or have their toughness reduced to 0, which would cause them to be put into the graveyard.
Understanding Indestructible and Sacrifice
To fully comprehend how sacrificing affects indestructible creatures, it’s essential to understand what indestructible means and how sacrificing works in the game. Indestructible is a keyword ability that prevents a permanent from being destroyed by effects that would normally cause it to be destroyed, such as lethal damage or destruction effects. On the other hand, sacrificing a creature involves putting it into its owner’s graveyard as a cost or effect of a spell or ability, which is different from destroying it.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What Destroys Indestructible Creatures?
Indestructible creatures can be affected by exiling, reducing their toughness to 0, forcing their owner to sacrifice them, countering the spell that made them indestructible, enchanting them with an ability that counters indestructible, discarding them from their owner’s hand, sending them to their owner’s library, or bouncing them back to their owner’s hand.
2. Does Board Wipe Kill Indestructible?
Board wipes that destroy or damage creatures will not affect indestructible creatures, but those that exile or give -X/-X to creatures can affect them.
3. Does Sacrificing a Creature Count as It Being Destroyed?
Sacrificing a creature does count as it dying, as it is put into the graveyard, but it is not considered destroyed because it was not destroyed by an effect or lethal damage.
4. What Is Indestructible?
Indestructible is a keyword ability that prevents a permanent from being destroyed by effects that would normally cause it to be destroyed, such as lethal damage or destruction effects.
5. Can Deathtouch Kill Indestructible?
No, deathtouch cannot kill indestructible creatures because indestructible prevents creatures from being destroyed by lethal damage, which is what deathtouch causes.
6. Does Deathtouch Cancel Indestructible?
No, deathtouch does not cancel indestructible; instead, indestructible creatures are immune to the lethal damage caused by deathtouch.
7. What Is the Rule for Indestructible?
The rule for indestructible is that it stops effects that would destroy the permanent, including destruction due to lethal damage and destruction that doesn’t allow regeneration.
8. What Is the Most Indestructible Living Creature?
The tardigrade, also known as the water bear, is considered the most indestructible animal on Earth, as it can survive up to 30 years without food, live in volcanoes, and endure the vacuum of space.
9. Is Hexproof or Indestructible Better?
Both hexproof and indestructible are powerful effects, but they have different weaknesses: indestructible falls prey to exiling, tucking, etc., while hexproof is vulnerable to ‘destroy all‘ and other non-targeting spells.
10. Does Deathtouch Stop Trample?
No, deathtouch does not stop trample, unless the creature with deathtouch has first strike, in which case it can prevent the creature with trample from assigning lethal damage to the defending player.
11. Does Hexproof Stop Sacrifice?
No, hexproof does not stop sacrifice if the spell or ability causing the sacrifice targets the player and not the creature.
12. Does Indestructible Prevent 0/0?
No, indestructible does not prevent a creature’s toughness from being reduced to 0, but it does prevent the creature from being destroyed by lethal damage.
13. Does Trample Go Through Indestructible?
Yes, trample can go through an indestructible creature, as the excess damage can be assigned to the defending player after assigning lethal-equivalent damage to the indestructible creature.
14. Does Hexproof Block Deathtouch?
No, hexproof does not block deathtouch, as deathtouch does not target the creature and therefore is not prevented by hexproof.
15. Can You Exile Indestructible?
Yes, indestructible permanents can still be exiled from the battlefield, which would remove them from the game without destroying them.