Alright, so I know the answer to this already. Curtain of Light can be used to block an otherwise unblocked creature with an evasion ability.
I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to find the relevant rule (for rules citation purposes). Does anybody know what rule number it is? It used to be 700.5 or so, I believe, but that is no longer the case.
It would save me a lot of trouble and keep me from having to continue searching the 200-or-so-page document for the rule number.
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[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
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Here's the closest you'll get. Basically, "can't be blocked" just means no creature can be declared as a blocker for it during the declare blockers step.
509.7. If a creature is put onto the battlefield blocking, its controller chooses which attacking creature it’s blocking as it enters the battlefield (unless the effect that put it onto the battlefield specifies what it’s blocking), then the active player announces the new creature’s placement in the blocked creature’s damage assignment order. The relative order among the remaining blocking creatures is unchanged. A creature put onto the battlefield this way is “blocking” but, for the purposes of trigger events and effects, it never “blocked.”
I'll ping the rules people and ask them nicely about maybe adding something back into the rules to accommodate this ambiguity in the next update.
Here's the closest you'll get. Basically, "can't be blocked" just means no creature can be declared as a blocker for it during the declare blockers step.
It really sucks for a person who doesn't know that it means that, wants to know what it means, and searches the Comprehensive Rules only to find out that there's no actual rule saying that.
I'll ping the rules people and ask them nicely about maybe adding something back into the rules to accommodate this ambiguity in the next update.
That'd be great. Thanks!
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Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
How to use card tags (please use them for everybody's sanity)
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format Minimum deck size: 60 Maximum number of identical cards: 4 Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
It really sucks for a person who doesn't know that it means that, wants to know what it means, and searches the Comprehensive Rules only to find out that there's no actual rule saying that.
Understood, and I agree. I believe it was an unintentional omission when 700.5. was modified for something else (cards that used to reference expansion symbols) and "unblockable" was removed as a rules term. For reference, here is the old 700.5. from the May version of the CR:
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700.5. If an attacking creature is unblockable, no creature can legally block it. (See rule 509, “Declare Blockers Step.”) Spells or abilities may still cause it to become blocked.
Hopefully they'll add something similar to explain that "can't be blocked" means the same thing that "unblockable" used to mean, since that's exactly what it means.
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I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to find the relevant rule (for rules citation purposes). Does anybody know what rule number it is? It used to be 700.5 or so, I believe, but that is no longer the case.
It would save me a lot of trouble and keep me from having to continue searching the 200-or-so-page document for the rule number.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format
Minimum deck size: 60
Maximum number of identical cards: 4
Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
I'll ping the rules people and ask them nicely about maybe adding something back into the rules to accommodate this ambiguity in the next update.
This FAQ answers many of the common questions asked in the MTGS Rulings forum. Take a look!
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It really sucks for a person who doesn't know that it means that, wants to know what it means, and searches the Comprehensive Rules only to find out that there's no actual rule saying that.
That'd be great. Thanks!
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format
Minimum deck size: 60
Maximum number of identical cards: 4
Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
Understood, and I agree. I believe it was an unintentional omission when 700.5. was modified for something else (cards that used to reference expansion symbols) and "unblockable" was removed as a rules term. For reference, here is the old 700.5. from the May version of the CR:
Hopefully they'll add something similar to explain that "can't be blocked" means the same thing that "unblockable" used to mean, since that's exactly what it means.
This FAQ answers many of the common questions asked in the MTGS Rulings forum. Take a look!
I'm the editor/content manager of the Magic Rules Tips Blog - Bookmark this site for daily tips about game and tournament rules.
"Abstract concepts of perfect judging run headlong into the realities of how people play the game." - Toby Elliott (papa_funk)
My Type 4 Stack -- DCI Documents -- Comp Rules