I'm new and still learning the site. Please explain the tagging system. Ivory mask says i cant be targeted by spells or abilities. An platinum emperion's ability prevents my life from changing. Does that mean my life does change? What about if my opponent uses book burning am i untouched by that spell?
Card tags work by typing in [c]Book Burning[/c] to get Book Burning.
As mentioned above, Emperion is not targeting you. Exquisite Blood is not targeting you. Mask does not stop either one from occurring. Emperion says your life total can't change so it doesn't. This means you can't pay life and your life total doesn't change when you are dealt damage. So, you can have Book Burning deal 6 damage to you. It will deal 6 damage to you and the result is that your life total will remain the same.
The fact that you are still dealt damage is important though. So, Infect damage still causes you to accumulate Poison counters. Commander Damage is still tracked. Players still gain life if they deal damage to you with a source with lifelink and so on.
Also, since I neglected to call it out above, Mask doesn't prevent you from gaining life from the Blood/Bond combo but Emperion will. In fact, Emperion will stop the entire combo since you can't gain life (since your life total can't change).
Wait you said platinum emperion doesnt prevent poison counters, but would ivory mask prevent the poison counters due to it being the effects of an infect ability?
Ivory Mask does not prevent you from being affected by things. It prevents you from being targeted. Chandra, Torch of Defiance still deals damage to you. Creatures still deal damage to you. Merciless Executioner still makes you sac a creature.
So, no, Mask will not stop you from getting Poison counters because nothing about Infect targets you.
Wait you said platinum emperion doesnt prevent poison counters, but would ivory mask prevent the poison counters due to it being the effects of an infect ability?
Ivory Mask will for example stop Fallen Ferromancer from dealing infect damage to you, but that's because its ability would target you, using the word 'target'. It's really all about that word. Introducing my favorite rule in the whole book:
114.9a. Just because an object or player is being affected by a spell or ability doesn't make that object or player a target of that spell or ability. Unless that object or player is identified by the word "target" in the text of that spell or ability, or the rule for that keyword ability, it's not a target.
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Platinum Emperion
Ivory Mask
Sanguine Bond
Exquisite Blood
Emperion and Blood do not target. Ivory Mask has no interaction with the cards you mentioned. Things only target if they explicitly say "target".
As mentioned above, Emperion is not targeting you. Exquisite Blood is not targeting you. Mask does not stop either one from occurring. Emperion says your life total can't change so it doesn't. This means you can't pay life and your life total doesn't change when you are dealt damage. So, you can have Book Burning deal 6 damage to you. It will deal 6 damage to you and the result is that your life total will remain the same.
The fact that you are still dealt damage is important though. So, Infect damage still causes you to accumulate Poison counters. Commander Damage is still tracked. Players still gain life if they deal damage to you with a source with lifelink and so on.
So, no, Mask will not stop you from getting Poison counters because nothing about Infect targets you.
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