this may just be me being stupid - but does "that much" refer to the amount of damage prevented or your devotion to white?
So say your devotion to white is 5 and they swing in with 2/2 - you cast this and deal "that much damage" to your opponent. Do I deal 5 or 2?
Also - Akroas in the background? This feels red white to me.
Posted By:
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
(2/13/2014 1:19:04 PM)
This is a very intriguing card for me. I haven't played it yet, but it seems to double as removal and combat trick at the same time for the simple cheap cost of 2 mana (there's a condition on it to be effective of course). So I'm looking forward on using it, but I can say that this is a good card because of the possibilities that you can do with it for cheap.
Posted By:
Dabok
(2/13/2014 3:36:49 PM)
@cloudchaser.kestrel I think this exert from the release notes will help
You don't choose a source of damage. The prevention shield will apply to the next X damage that would be dealt to the first target, no matter where that damage comes from. It also doesn't matter whether the damage is dealt at the same time. For example, if the shield prevents the next 5 damage to the first target, and that creature would be dealt 3 damage by Lightning Strike, that 3 damage is prevented and Acolyte's Reward deals 3 damage to the second target. The prevention effect will still apply to the next 2 damage the first target would be dealt that turn.
Posted By:
orzhov20
(2/16/2014 7:21:20 PM)
Hi, Temple of Triumph! How are you doing?
Posted By:
SirZapdos
(2/17/2014 1:04:01 PM)
@rastik
The combat damage from the two attacking creatures happens at the same time, and then Acolyte's Reward's damage happens. You would still take the damage from the unblocked creature.
Posted By:
Steaditup
(2/18/2014 1:03:20 PM)
Divine Retribution
Coordinated Barrage
This ability can be found in Mono-White if you look for it, and it's kind of old, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to most people. Basically, now that we have LOTS more Gold Cards since first Ravnica Block was introduced, the Orzhov and Boros Guilds do more aesthetically what Mono Black and Mono White used to in their spare time with Drain Life and Eye for an Eye. From Mirage to Mirrodin though, the game had to have as many interesting mechanics as it could invent and had to divide them as best as it could between FIVE color identities.
Ravnica, Time Spiral, and Lorwyn-Shadowmoor really opened the floodgates on making the Color Wheel much more Color-Pair focused, so anything that looks like it should be Guild-flavored, we don't expect to see on a Mono-Colored card. But there IS precedence, if you were wondering, for Black to just straight up gain life and for w... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(2/21/2014 9:06:39 AM)
What people arent taking into consideration is this card lets you do lethal damage to your opponent on their turn. Have just a few damage that your creatures can't get through on your turn, let them swing and block one guy with all yours, protect their creature and deal the damage to them. You can force a draw since there is no state based action check between their combat damage and the redirected damage, and if you can get the block damage from a first striker you can win. Also a beautiful thing to let them swing with 15 elemental tokens, block one with a first strike and kill master of waves before normal combat damage.
Posted By:
FitzgeraldTheWicked
(3/5/2014 9:03:20 PM)
does anyone know if the prevention effect replicates if damage is applied in multiple phases or not instantaneously? Card stipulates "this turn"
For example, say opponents main phase, they cast a damage sorcery/instant, i cast acolyte's reward in response to save my creature. for arguments sake. say. was 2 pts of damage and i have 2 white devotion. next, combat happens, and 2nd main, they cast an instant for another 2 pts targeting the creature with acolyte's reward. does the check against the card (acolyte's reward) occur again?
Or similarly if it was a trigger chain, say... you prevented 2 damage, but somehow life was gained, or something that then triggered, that deals a 2nd dose of damage at the target creature with acolyte's reward on it... would the card then run the check again for "the next X damage, prevented by devotion" etc
Posted By:
veritas723
(3/6/2014 8:08:49 PM)
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ur/293
Yep, it's Iroas. As for Mogis- Iroas takes the form of a centaur, assumable so too the other Gods take their forms. Don't see why Atheros wouldn't want to take a different form, though, he's ugly as sin.
Posted By:
DaLucaray
(4/2/2014 4:09:47 PM)
Nice utility for white decks
Posted By:
Sanstrom
(4/13/2014 5:02:08 AM)