In part 107.1b of the Complete guidelines there may be an instance the place energy and toughness of a creature change in a means that I discover complicated.
Instance: Chameleon Colossus is a 4/4 creature with the flexibility “{2}{G}{G}: Chameleon Colossus will get +X/+X till finish of flip, the place X is its energy.” An impact offers it -6/-0, then its capacity is activated. It stays a -2/4 creature. It doesn’t turn into -4/2.
I do not perceive why the creature does not turn into a -4/2 creature. In my thoughts the creature has a base energy and toughness of 4/4 which is first modified to -2/4 and subsequently to -4/2 (for a length). It might appear to me that the one means for the ability and toughness values to not change is that if X is zero or the impact from the flexibility is ignored for some motive. However X will not be zero because the base energy has modified from 4 to -2. Neither is there a motive to disregard the impact from the flexibility.
Is the that means of the textual content {that a} creature can “turn into” one thing else if it undergoes a change in traits which is separate from the creature being topic to modifier values that trigger a short lived change within the interpretation of it is traits? Within the instance the bottom energy and toughness of the creature is 4/4, that are modified by the primary impact to -2/4, altering the traits of the creature? The Colossus thus “turns into a -2/4 creature”. There’s then the impact from the activation of the creature’s capacity which causes a short lived interpretation of the traits to -4/2 till finish of flip. On this sense the creature “does not turn into -4/2” because the traits don’t change from -2/4 however are merely topic to a short lived modifier worth.
I am a brand new participant (have not even performed a sport but) making an attempt to get an outline of the foundations, so I won’t be utilizing the right phrases (“results”, “traits”, “objects”).
