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DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
[[Gideon Blackblade]] ............... Hero
[[Dauntless Bodyguard]] ........... Stunt Double
[[Vraska, Golgari Queen]] ......... Villainess
On my opponent's turn, my opponent casts Dauntless Bodyguard choosing his only creature at the time, a creature-form Gideon Blackblade (as per his passive ability). Dauntless Bodyguard's oracle text is as follows:
As Dauntless Bodyguard enters the battlefield, choose another creature you control.
Sacrifice Dauntless Bodyguard: The chosen creature gains indestructible until end of turn.
On my turn Gideon reverts back to Planeswalker form and I cast Vraska to use her -3 ability to destroy Gideon. In response, my opponent sacs Bodyguard to save Gideon but no effect occurs, and Gideon dies.
I try this scenario out again against Sparky using a plains that has been animated with [[Sylvan Awakening]], casting Bodyguard, waiting for it to stop being a creature and trying to kill it using [[Memorial to War]]. When I sacced Bodyguard the Plains did not gain indestructible and was subsequently destroyed.
However, multiple judges have stated that the opposite should occur:
https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Insight/Articles/CMAskTheJudge-Episode-40-Guarding-the-Hero
https://magicjudge.tumblr.com/post/174959330247/if-i-have-dauntless-bodyguard-protect-a-crewed
After consulting with a judge chat I was made aware of the following in the comprehensive rules:
700.7 If an ability of an object uses a phrase such as “this [something]” to identify an object, where [something] is a characteristic, it is referring to that particular object, even if it isn’t the appropriate characteristic at the time.
Example: An ability reads “Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn. Destroy that creature at the beginning of the next end step.” The ability will destroy the object it gave +2/+2 to even if that object isn’t a creature at the beginning of the next end step.
So Bodyguard should've been able to grant indestructible to his non-creature friends.
Is there something else entirely that I'm missing, or does Arena have this interaction wrong?
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