Is Indestructible Immune to Board Wipe?
Indestructible creatures are not completely immune to board wipes, as their indestructibility only protects them from effects that destroy or deal lethal damage to them, but not from effects that exile, return to hand, or sacrifice them. When a board wipe is cast, indestructible creatures will be unaffected if the wipe destroys or deals damage to creatures, but will be affected if the wipe exiles or gives -X/-X to creatures.
Understanding Indestructible and Board Wipes
To delve deeper into the relationship between indestructible creatures and board wipes, it’s essential to understand what each term means. Indestructible is a keyword ability that prevents a creature from being destroyed by damage or effects that specifically destroy creatures. On the other hand, board wipes are spells or abilities that destroy or exile all permanents of a certain type, usually creatures, on the battlefield.
FAQs
1. Does Protection Stop Board Wipes?
Protection does not stop board wipes that do not target the protected creature, as it only prevents damage, enchanting, equipping, blocking, and targeting.
2. What Does Indestructible Protect From?
Indestructible protects creatures from effects that normally destroy creatures, including damage (including combat damage) and any effects that destroy a creature.
3. Can Hexproof Prevent Board Wipe?
A card with hexproof is still affected by board wipes that do not target specifically that card.
4. Does Shroud Negate Board Wipes?
Shroud does not negate board wipes, as board wipes do not target creatures but rather destroy or exile all creatures at once.
5. What Does Hexproof Not Protect Against?
Hexproof does not protect against effects that do not target the creature or player, such as sweepers and sacrifice effects.
6. Does Indestructible Prevent Deathtouch?
Indestructible creatures ignore deathtouch, as they cannot be destroyed by deathtouch.
7. Do Shield Counters Prevent Board Wipes?
Shield counters prevent damage and destruction effects, including board wipes that deal damage or destroy creatures.
8. Can Mother of Runes Give Protection from Board Wipes?
While Mother of Runes can protect creatures from targeted removal and board wipes, it is typically cast at sorcery speed.
9. What Destroys Indestructible?
Indestructible permanents can still be put into their owner’s graveyard by other means, such as the legend rule, being sacrificed, or having zero or less toughness.
10. Does Deathtouch Cancel Deathtouch?
Any two instances of deathtouch against one another cancel out the deathtouch ability.
11. Is Hexproof or Indestructible Better?
Both hexproof and indestructible are powerful effects, but indestructible falls prey to exiling, tucking, etc., while hexproof is vulnerable to destroy all and other non-targeting spells.
12. How Many Board Wipes Should I Have?
The number of board wipes to include in a deck depends on the player’s strategy, but board wipes are an intrinsic part of the format.
13. How Do You Protect Artifacts from Board Wipes?
Artifacts can be protected from board wipes using protection spells, recursion, counterspells, land-based ramp, and more lands and card draw.
14. Does Deathtouch Go Through Shield?
Deathtouch is prevented by shield counters, which work as a damage prevention effect.
15. Does Indestructible Work on Planeswalkers?
An indestructible planeswalker would survive a Planar Cleansing or Hero’s Downfall, but indestructibility does not stop loyalty counters from being removed when the planeswalker is dealt damage.