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Minion of Leshrac
Creature — Demon Minion
rare
Protection from black At the beginning of your upkeep, this creature deals 5 damage to you unless you sacrifice a creature other than this creature. If this creature deals damage to you this way, tap it. : Destroy target creature or land.
5/5
Semantic Tags
Specifically removes creatures — destroy, exile, damage, or -X/-X.
A keyword ability that precludes a permanent from being destroyed. See rule 702.12.
A permanent with a repeatable activated ability that converts excess mana into value.
A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”
A keyword ability that provides a range of benefits against objects with a specific quality. See rule 702.16, “Protection.”
Answers an opponent's threat by destroying, exiling, bouncing, or otherwise removing a permanent or spell.
Broadly benefits from sacrificing permanents — overlaps aristocrats but includes non-creature sacrifice.
Cannot be blocked or has an ability that makes it very hard to block.
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Printings (2)
| Set | Rarity | TCGplayer | Card Kingdom | Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Edition II#104 | rare | · | · | · |
| Ice Age#150 | rare | · | · | · |
Related Concepts
A keyword ability that provides a range of benefits against objects with a specific quality. See rule 702.16, “Protection.”
Related Rules
If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.
Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.
To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”
An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.
A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.
If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.
The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.
Rulings
If you don’t sacrifice a creature at the beginning of your upkeep (either by choice or because you can’t), but you somehow prevent all the damage Minion of Leshrac would deal to you, then you don’t tap Minion of Leshrac.
Minion of Leshrac can’t target itself with its activated ability because it has protection from black.