Obligatory blocking and Ink-Treader Nephilim
Asked by FAMOUSWATERMELON 8 years ago
I have an Ink-Treader Nephilim on the board, five goblin tokens, and I miracle Revenge of the Hunted targetting the Nephilim. My opponent has 4 creatures on the board, and I attack with all my creatures. How does the blocking work?
When there are blocking restrictions, your opponent must try to satisfy as many of the conditions as they can without making any illegal blocks. Since any block satisfies the clause that it must be blocked, essentially blocking would occur as normal, sans creatures that can block multiple.
Basically, there is no psuedo-unblocable when faced with multiple instances of "all creatures able to block it this turn do so". Which I think is what you're asking.
June 7, 2015 2:21 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #3
509.1c The defending player checks each creature he or she controls to see whether its affected by any requirements (effects that say a creature must block, or that it must block if some condition is met). If the number of requirements that are being obeyed is fewer than the maximum possible number of requirements that could be obeyed without disobeying any restrictions, the declaration of blockers is illegal. If a creature cant block unless a player pays a cost, that player is not required to pay that cost, even if blocking with that creature would increase the number of requirements being obeyed.
For each creature that your opponent controls there is 1 instance of "this creature must block" for each of your creatures. There are 20 total requirements and the maximum number of requirements that can be obeyed is 4.
June 7, 2015 2:24 p.m.
Gidgetimer The opponent won't need to stack all on one. They could spread them out. Each block, either stacking on one or spreading them out, satisfies the same number of conditions.
June 7, 2015 2:25 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #5
Sorry there are 24 total restrictions. for some reason as I was typing out the second reply I forgot you had 6 creatures.
June 7, 2015 2:27 p.m.
Gidgetimer says... #6
Yeah the wording of my original response was confusing although grammatically correct. Each of the creatures must block 1 creature. It does not all have to be the same creature blocked, but each must block 1.
Gidgetimer says... #1
All 4 of your opponent's creatures must block one of your 6 creatures that they can. I'll work on finding the exact rule in a second.
June 7, 2015 2:16 p.m.