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    Display of Dominance

    Illustrated by Tomasz Jedruszek

    EDHREC Rank #23,419
    Choose one — • Destroy target blue or black noncreature permanent. • Permanents you control can't be the targets of blue or black spells your opponents control this turn.

    Rulings (5)

    If you choose the second mode, Display of Dominance will affect any permanent you happen to control at any point during the rest of the turn, not just permanents you control as it resolves. That’s because it doesn’t grant an ability to those permanents; rather, it affects the game rules and states something that’s now true about those permanents.

    Feb 25, 2015

    If you choose the second mode, and if a permanent you control is being targeted by a spell when Display of Dominance resolves, nothing happens right away. When that spell would resolve, its color is checked. If it’s blue or black, that permanent will be an illegal target for that spell and won’t be affected by it. If all that spell’s targets have become illegal by the time it would resolve, it’s countered.

    Feb 25, 2015

    Keep in mind that an Aura spell targets the permanent it will enchant (but an Aura on the battlefield doesn’t target the permanent it’s attached to).

    Feb 25, 2015

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