Choking Vines
Weatherlight · #123 · Common
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Cast this spell only during the declare blockers step.
X target attacking creatures become blocked. Choking Vines deals 1 damage to each of those creatures. (This spell works on creatures that can't be blocked.)
Card details
- Shown printing
- Weatherlight (WTH)
- Artist
- Ted Naifeh
- Color identity
- Green
- Colors
- Green
- Mana value
- 1
- First released
- June 9, 1997
- Printings
- 1
- EDHREC rank
- #24205 on EDHREC
- Market price
- $0.18 (cheapest printing, updated weekly)
Legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- Standard BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
- GladiatorNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- Pauper CommanderLegal
- Duel CommanderLegal
- PreDHLegal
- PremodernLegal
- Old SchoolNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- FutureNot legal
Rulings (5)
Choking Vines will make any creatures it targets become blocked, even if the creature had blocking restrictions on it. For example, you can make a creature with Islandwalk become blocked even if the defending player has Islands. This is because evasion abilities only prevent creatures from being assigned to block them.
You can declare zero targets, with X=0.
Choking Vines isn’t particularly effective against creatures with trample. Since the creature with trample has no blocker to assign damage to, all the damage will be assigned to the defending player.
If a previously unblocked creature becomes blocked as a result of Choking Vines, any “When this creature becomes blocked” abilities that creature has will trigger. Any “When this creature becomes blocked by a creature” abilities that creature has won’t trigger.
You may target a blocked creature with Choking Vines. Choking Vines will deal 1 damage to it, and have no other effect on it.
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