mutantman91.DeleteThis@gmail.com <mutantman91.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
>Okay, how 'bout this: two Hunter Slivers are in play, and all Slivers
>have two instances of Provoke. Now how does Two-Headed Sliver interact?
Hunter Sliver 1R Creature - Sliver
1/1 All Slivers have provoke. (When a Sliver attacks, its controller may have
target creature defending player controls untap and block it if able.)
Two-Headed Sliver 1R Creature - Sliver
1/1 All Slivers have "This creature can't be blocked except by two or more
creatures.".
Now each Sliver that attacks has both its Provokes trigger, and the Sliver's
controller may target the same creature twice (fairly similar to the one-
Provoke case, except with two different untap times), or may target two
different creatures. If both targetted creatures are able to block the
attacking Sliver and if the attacker's controller decides to have both
untap and forced-block, THEN it's not legal to try to not block that Sliver,
or to block it with just one of them plus some other creature, because now
"both of them block it" is (generally) a legal blocking assignment, which
satisfies two more blocking requirements than "nothing blocks it" AND which
doesn't involve anything that's not forced to block (as 500.5 notes).
If that parses for you, anyway.
Having just one forced-block doesn't mean anything else "must block along with
it to make the block legal" that's not forced to block - that's what 500.5 is
saying, effectively, for the one-Provoke case - but if you've GOT two that
must block and that can block, guess what? You've got yourself a legal blocking
assignment you can pick that DOES make "no blockers" conflict with the
must-block requirements, so "no blockers" is no longer legal.
Dave
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