I use DEBT as well but I always think D is destroy or damage instead of just damage

@@wEakling1918destroy is not quite correct, what you’re thinking of would be targeted effects that say destroy, which would be the T of DEBT. The reason this isnt quite right is because, for example, a creature with protection from white still gets destroyed by a wrath of god, or pro blue would stop get bounced with a cyclonic rift, or a creature with pro black and/or white still gets exiled with a merciless eviction.

DEBT is the way to remember it. D means you cannot DAMAGE it or DESTROY it E means you cannot ENCHANT it B means you cannot BLOCK it T means you cannot TARGET it.

@@Leftists_are_Losers See this is the trap, though. D is ONLY FOR DAMAGE, you can still destroy things that have protection.

​@@Leftists_are_Losersyeah, like the commenter before me, I think the acronym only works if you know it correctly. D: Damage E: equipments and auras B: blocking T: targetting Destroy is not listed at all (as was explained in this video 😅), also you have to remember that auras are also affected not just equipment (the acronym should really be DEABT, but that isn't as memorable haha). Maybe the real acronym should be BATED.

I always thought you were phased.out.... if you have protection from everything, doesn't that mean all your curses will fall off? Phasing out means they don't hit you, but I've never heard of curses falling off from teferis protection

@@thecollectiblecollectabill2298 if YOU were phased out curses attached to you would phase out too. Any curses attached to you should fall off if you have protection from everything.

@@thecollectiblecollectabill2298 the card reads that only your permanents phase, players cannot phase. Protection would make curses fall off, it's the same if you enchant a creature with an aura and then give it protection from that colour until end of turn - the aura falls off

That's exactly it. I've never played a game where Teferi's Protection was used but I've watched Commander shows where the impression is the player and all their stuff phases out. Those players in the videos probably know proper effect but people watching get the wrong idea so when someone plays it against them in their own games at FNM, their understanding of the effect comes from their memory of seeing it on KZfaq.

Functionally, in most pods, it is. That said, if you see it a lot, you can get really creative with it... And start seeing a lot less of it as a result.

it's insane to think so many people have misunderstood teferi's protection , I don't understand how they can't read, it makes complete sense if people just read the bloody card

@@SuperbFairy the human brain really likes mental shortcuts, they're far more energy efficient, especially when you're placed in a situation with closely linked social and time pressures. If you haven't taken the time to really grasp what the card actually says, including the subtext, and, a lot of players in the middle of a game don't, then it's easy to miss the small nuances that the mechanics Teferi's Protection actually has. The cross referencing required to fully understand the card is pretty huge, when you think about it, and when a card is giving you a litany of things you can't do, it can be hard to invert your own mode of thinking into what you can do. As an aside, I think this is a big part of the reason why people hate Stax so much, as an archetype: they get so focused on the barriers that they fail to see the holes in it, and there are always holes to be found.

Just fought some one about commander damage getting around where is the ruling

​@@jacobeaton5241I don't think commander damage gets around protection. The only reason he listed it in this video is because his commander (questing beast) specifically said that damage cannot be prevented, so it in a way trumps protection. For any other commander though they wouldn't deal commander damage through Teferi's Protection. So if you have taken 19 commander damage from my 4/4 commander and I swing in again, you cast Teferi's Protection, you're fine, you done take the damage. You're still on 19 commander damage. If however my commander was Questing Beast, it specifically says damage can't be prevented. So you're on 19 commander damage, I swing in with my 4/4 questing beast which damage can't be prevented from, you cast Teferi's Protection, but it can't protect against Questing Beast's damage because the damage can't be prevented. Therefore you go to 23 commander damage and lose. Maybe I misunderstood your comment, if so you can ignore this and hopefully it helps someone else. But if I understood it correctly then I hope it helps (and if I got something wrong please someone else correct me haha)

There are actual little rule books?

@@multiekstravardistan4480 yeah they used to come in tournament decks and other various products back in the day

yes, protection from creatures essentially means unblockable.

Apparently not confusing enough eh.

Nah, they stopped printing it cuz it was brutal to get randomly paired against an opponent with creatures you can't block or interact with.

That combat attack and defend video is one of the first videos I saw of yours, I think it was the very first one. I was in a game of Commander and searched the answer and you had just uploaded it like 3 or 4 day before then. We had it play for the whole pod while we played.

@@craig1287 Thanks! Glad you found the video to be helpful in your group.

Not only is "colorless" included in everything, so is "artifacts", "equipment", "cards containing reminder text", "my grandmother" and "itself". So yes, you technically can activate Balan for 2 mana and equip all equipment to him, but then the game sees equipment attached to a creature that has protection from them and unattaches them again :)

If a creature has Protection from Creatures or a color of the Mutate spell you're trying to cast then it will not work as when cast for it's Mutate it does target. Once you have mutated a creature though, giving it Pro 'value' will not make the Mutate stack fall apart in any way. Mutate isn't something being "attached" and Protection only stops things being "attached".

The new omnath makes it so you don't lose mana during steps and phases is prob the most recent example

That's sort of how all Magic cards work. There are the rules of Magic that are listed in the Comprehensive Rules, but then Magic is comprised of thousands of cards that come with their own rules printed on them. In the rules of Magic, there are things called State-Based Actions (SBA) and one of them states that when a creature has more than zero Toughness but also has more damage marked on it than their Toughness then they are sent to the Graveyard. Well that's the rule that Indestructible overrides. Lots of cards have their own text that either add rules to the game or replace rules of the game.

every card that has lifelink with the reminder text or the rules clearly state life is gained equal to the damage dealt by the source that has lifelink. deathtouch makes it so any damage dealt is enough for lethal, so if the opponent blocks a 3 power creature with deathtouch, you can assign 1 point of damage to each, completely ignoring their toughness if its bigger, and kill all 3. perhaps this is where the person was teaching you wrong was confused about. also wanted to add that with both abilities, it cares about damage in general so it can be via combat or other means!

@@uhfrank thanks I always knew how lifelink worked but with deathtouch was the only scenario where I was miseducated

I agree with you whokeheartedly. This is a complex, nuanced game, whuch as players we generally love, but it's not for everybody. WotC would sure love for it to be for everybody, though, to pad their bottom line, so they do away with rules, or dumb them down to make it more approachable. GW has been doing the same thing with 49k, but seems blussfully unaware tgat their ridiculiys pricing model is driving away far more customers than the ruleset ever was. Just another example of greed overtaking the product they intended to sell.

you are correct

The E is Enchanting and Equipping

Ok or not haha, because equipment is Targeting

Animar having protection from black and white means he can’t be targeted at all (from your spells and opponent spells) by black and white spells. It’s almost like color selective shroud. If someone is telling you Animar can be targeted but the spell fizzles, they’re wrong. It’s not like the ward keyword.

thank you for your comment and clarifying on this matter… Animar was the commander that got me playing magic and the commander format, this really helped me out and i should have trusted my instincts and instead i was fooled by my opponents and lost some big games, even some in which i should have won…..(mistakes were made and now i hope to from them) thank you again for your help

If they make a pro colorless sword, then you can't equip it since you sword is itself colorless! So it doesn't work nah

@@n8w00d8 well they could put except itself I’ve seen that on an enchantment I think but that makes it less useful.

@@cosmicodyssey3382 true, they could, their is an aura in white that gives protection from every color and since its an aura they put "aura are not removed" on it.

@@n8w00d8 I vaguely remember that card

You need to read what protection DOES.

Attacking does not target. It's that simple.

You should watch the video... It literally tells you, attacking does NOT target