news | June 08, 2026

Can you cast spells after Teferis protection?

Can I cast spells while Teferi’s Protection is in effect? Yes. Nothing in Teferi’s Protection says otherwise.

Can you attack a player with Teferis protection?

While a permanent is phased out, it’s treated as though it doesn’t exist. It can’t be the target of spells or abilities, its static abilities have no effect on the game, its triggered abilities can’t trigger, it can’t attack or block, and so on.

Can you respond to Teferi’s protection?

In general, you can cast Teferi’s Protection in response to Worldpurge, because the player who had priority after casting a spell gets priority back, and because Teferi’s Protection is an instant (C.R. 601.2i, 117.1a).

Does phasing trigger ETB?

Does phasing trigger ETB or LTB effects? No, it doesn’t. For the same reason that auras and equipments don’t fall off during phasing, ETB (enter the battlefield) and LTB (leave the battlefield) triggers don’t go off.

Is phasing out leaving the battlefield?

Tokens continue to exist on the battlefield while phased out. Counters remain on a permanent while it’s phased out.

Is Phasing leaving the battlefield?

Phasing in or out doesn’t count as an permanent entering or leaving the battlefield, so abilities that look for those conditions will not apply. If a permanent phases out, any Auras or Equipment attached to it will phase out along with it.

Does protection from a color prevent Deathtouch?

As we discussed a few weeks ago, protection does several things, such as preventing all damage from any source it has protection from. That means that deathtouch will not apply, as damage that is prevented is not considered dealt.

What happens when you play Teferi’s protection?

You can’t be the target of spells or abilities (as you have protection from them.) If a spell or ability is on the stack with only one target (you) and you play Teferi’s Protection in response, that spell or ability will no longer have a valid target and will be countered by the rules. None of its effects will happen.

Is the exile Teferi’s protection a good card?

Exile Teferi’s Protection. This card seems pretty good. While you still lose to Lab Man combos, it stops a lot of combos dead in their tracks while allowing that player to blow up the rest of the table. When you phase back in, you can then (hopefully) take care of their combo and take over the game.

What does gaining protection from everything do to a spell?

2017-08-25: Gaining protection from everything causes a spell or ability on the stack to have an illegal target if it targets you. As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve and none of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target.

What happens if all the targets of a spell are illegal?

As a spell or ability tries to resolve, if all its targets are illegal, that spell or ability doesn’t resolve and none of its effects happen, including effects unrelated to the target. If at least one target is still legal, the spell or ability does as much as it can to the remaining legal targets, and its other effects still happen.