Can i use telemin performance on my opponents emrakul, the aeons torn? he says i cant because he has protection from colored spells, but i tell him it doesn't work like that because she has to be on the field for her to have that protection. so who's right?
Your argument is correct. Protection, like most abilities, only works while the permanent is on the battlefield. In addition, TP doesn't do anything protection would stop anyway, since it doesn't target, attach, block, or damage Emrakul. Those are the only things protection helps against. Even Progenitus is helpless against any other stuff. Wrath of God can remove it for example, and Emrakul would fall prey to that sorcery, too.
Protection only functions on the battlefield unless otherwise noted.
Moot point but if the protection did function everywhere it still would not matter because Telemin Performance
does not try to Damage, Enchant/Equip/Fortify, Block, or Target Emrakul. You are targeting your opponent with Telemin.
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Moot point but if the protection did function everywhere it still would not matter because Telemin Performance
does not try to Damage, Enchant/Equip/Fortify, Block, or Target Emrakul. You are targeting your opponent with Telemin.