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Question by Bill
Submitted on 11/8/2003
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If I play a card that puts a -1/-1 counter on a creature and it dies can that creature be regenerated?


Answer by MillMaster
Submitted on 12/16/2003
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Regeneration only prevents a creature from being destroyed.

Rule 420.5c says:
A creature with lethal damage, but greater than 0 toughness, is destroyed. Lethal damage is an amount of damage greater than or equal to a creature's toughness.

You can see that the word destroy is used in this rule, and thus, this effect can be replaced by regeneration.

But 420.5b says:
A creature with toughness 0 or less is put into its owner's graveyard. Regeneration can't replace this event

The word destroy is not used, and so no regeneration is possible. Logicaly it wouldnt make sense because you would try to regenerate a creature, then it would go to grave again because of 0 toughness, then you would try to regenerate it again? Then it goes to grave again? This would be a big loop untill you didnt have any way to regenerate it and it would die anyway.


 

Answer by infiniteorange
Submitted on 4/17/2006
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