Can an indestructible Magic (the gathering) creature be destoryed by Wrath of God?

Question

My opponent has a Stuffy Doll which is an "Artifact Creature-Construct", which says, "Stuffy Doll is indestructible." I have a Wrath of God, which is a sorcery, which says, "Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated." What should happen? Is the Stuffy Doll destroyed or does it stay in play. My opponent also has a card which is a "Planeswalker-Chandra", with loyalty points. Can it be destroyed by Wrath of God also? If anyone knows this, or knows where we can find it in the rule book on the web, please provide that information, so we can be better Magic players. Thanks.

Answer 1

Makotto is right about the Stuffy Doll. It can't be destroyed. I'll have a link for the rule at the bottom. Plainswalkers are not creatures, so it can't be destroyed by a spell that effects creatures, but it can be destroyed by cards that affect permanents. The link for that is below also.



Indestructible: If a permanent is indestructible, rules and effects can’t destroy it. Such permanents are not destroyed by lethal damage, and they ignore the lethal-damage state-based effect (see rule 420.5c). Rules or effects may cause an indestructible permanent to be sacrificed, put into a graveyard, or removed from the game.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/comprules/MagicCompRules080201.pdf



Plainswalkers: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=magic/rules/planeswalkers

Answer 2

Any creature that is indestructible will not be destroyed by Wrath of God (or Damnation). Indestructible means that any effect that says 'destroy target/all creatures' will not affect the indestructible creatures.

Cards like Chandra, Ajani, Garruck, etc. are planeswalkers, not creatures. Therefore any card that targets creatures can not target them. Wrath of God will do nothing to any planeswalker.

Indestructible creatures, however can go to the graveyard as state-based effects check if their thoughness is 1 or more. In laymans term: if you incinerate a stufyf doll, it will not destroy it; but if you cast sudden death (target stuffy doll) the stuffy doll will be -4/-3 and will go to the graveyard.

Good Luck

Answer 3

Mak made a great answer. Key thing to remember about the planeswalkers is that any spell affecting them has to target generic permanents like "Desert Twister". Spells like "Fissure" which target lands and/or creatures can't be used on planeswalkers.



As for Indestructibles--apart from reducing toughness to 0, the only other way to get rid of them is to remove them from the game through spells like "Balance" and "Swords to Plowshares"

Answer 4

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Answer 6

stuffy doll cant be destroyed by anything its a really good card because of that effect and if an opponet uses trample monsters and you block with stuffy doll they take damage instead of you because thats what the target a player means it means when stuffy doll takes damage that player takes damage its basicly a really good screw your opponets trample monsters card.