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Can i target a psychatog with a terror ?...

 

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:40:06 -0500, Mjolnir <mjolnir@videotron.ca> wrote:
>Can i target a psychatog with a terror ?...

Psychatog 1UB Creature -- Atog
1/2 Discard a card: ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn. / Remove two cards in your
graveyard from the game: ~ gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Terror 1B Instant
Destroy target nonartifact, nonblack creature. It can't be regenerated.

Is Psychatog nonartifact? Yes, it is. Is it nonblack? No, it is not; it is
black, so it can't possibly be nonblack. So it's not a legal target for
Terror.

(Is it blue? Yes, it is. Does that, by itself, make it nonblack? No. Terror
doesn't ASK if it's blue or not; it asks if it's black or not.)

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Oh no! It's Mjolnir!
> Can i target a psychatog with a terror ?...

No, since it's black. "Non-black" and any similar designation you see in
Magic (like "nonartifact" on the same card, or "non-Wall" on a number of
creature-affecting cards) only cares about one thing: is it black (or
whatever other characteristic is being asked for), or not? It doesn't
care what other characteristics an object might have.

Now some people look at a critter like Psychatog and want to answer the
above question with "no, it's not black; it's black and blue". In Magic,
that line of reasoning doesn't work; either it's black or it's not,
either it's blue or it's not. If it's both, fine, but that means
*exactly* that; it's both at the same time, not some special third
thing.