Eland Umbra

set	min	mtgo
-	4.12	0.03 tix

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Name	Eland Umbra
Type	Enchantment — aura
Description	Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +0/+4. Totem armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
Artist	Howard Lyon
Set	Rise of the Eldrazi #19
Wallpaper	download
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About Eland Umbra

Eland Umbra, Enchantment — aura, designed by Howard Lyon first released in Apr, 2010 in the set Rise of the Eldrazi. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 4.12.

This card, Eland Umbra, would benefit a defensive white deck looking to protect key creatures from removal spells or combat damage. While Eland Umbra provides a decent toughness boost and totem armor ability, there are potentially better options like Hyena Umbra or Spirit Mantle that offer additional benefits such as evasion or power boosts. Whether Eland Umbra sees play would depend on the specific strategy and synergies of the deck, but it could be a situational inclusion in certain builds.

Rules

07/13/18

If a permanent enchanted with an Aura that has totem armor has indestructible, lethal damage and effects that try to destroy it simply have no effect. Totem armor won’t do anything because it won’t have to.

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If a permanent you control is enchanted with multiple Auras that have totem armor, and the enchanted permanent would be destroyed, one of those Auras is destroyed instead — but only one of them. You choose which one because you control the enchanted permanent.

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If a spell or ability (such as Akroma’s Vengeance) would destroy both an Aura with totem armor and the permanent it’s enchanting at the same time, totem armor’s effect will save the enchanted permanent from being destroyed. Instead, the spell or ability will destroy the Aura in two different ways at the same time, but the result is the same as destroying it once.

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If a spell or ability says that it would “destroy” a permanent enchanted with an Aura that has totem armor, that spell or ability is what causes the Aura to be destroyed instead. Totem armor doesn’t destroy the Aura; rather, it changes the effects of the spell or ability. On the other hand, if a spell or ability deals lethal damage to a creature enchanted with an Aura that has totem armor, the game rules regarding lethal damage cause the Aura to be destroyed, not that spell or ability.

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Totem armor’s effect is mandatory. If the enchanted permanent would be destroyed, you must remove all damage from it (if it has any) and destroy the Aura that has totem armor instead.

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