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Sigarda, Host of Herons
Card Information
Type: Legendary Creature — Angel
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 5
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Innistrad Remastered (INR)
Rarity: Mythic
Collector Number: 247
Oracle Text
Flying, hexproof Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause you to sacrifice permanents.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- December 7, 2018
As a spell or ability an opponent controls resolves, if it would force you to sacrifice a permanent, you just don't. That part of the effect does nothing. If that spell or ability gives you the option to sacrifice a permanent (as Desecration Demon does), you can't take that option.
Source: wotc - December 7, 2018
Sigarda's ability affects only sacrifices. It won't stop a creature from dying due to lethal damage or having 0 toughness, and it won't stop a permanent from being put into its owner's graveyard due to the "legend rule." None of these are sacrifices; they're the result of game rules.
Source: wotc - December 7, 2018
If a spell or ability an opponent controls states that something happens unless you sacrifice a permanent (as Mogis, God of Slaughter does), you can't choose to sacrifice a permanent. On the other hand, if a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to sacrifice a permanent unless you perform an action (as Killing Wave does), you can choose whether or not to perform the action. If you don't perform the action, nothing happens, since you can't sacrifice any permanents.
Source: wotc
Price History
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