Unblockable
Unblockable is an attribute of a creature that precludes it from being blocked. It can not be keyworded because it's used in too many different ways. [1] In Magic 2014, the text Is unblockable was changed to Can't be blocked. Cards that used the term have received errata in the Oracle card reference.
A creature's ability that grants unblockability can be static (Covert Operative), triggered (Bubbling Beebles) or activated (Blockade Runner). Some spells also grant a creature unblockability, often along with shroud. Additionally, some effects that grant unblockability may only target creatures with power 2 or less (Dwarven Warriors).
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Example of Unblockable
Spells and Artifacts that grant Unblockable
Enchantments
target creature
- Aqueous Form
(Also grants scry 1 when enchanted creature attacks) - Cloak of Mists
- Protective Bubble
(also has shroud) - Steel of the Godhead
Template:Uw (as long as enchanted creature is blue) - Tricks of the Trade
- Way of the Thief (as long as you control a Gate)
- Writ of Passage (enchanted creature with power 2 or less)
Instants
- Ghostform (up to two target creatures)
- Hearth Charm
(target creature with power 2 or less) - Infiltrate
- Sewers of Estark
- Teleport
- Trailblazer
- Veil of Secrecy (also grants shroud)
Sorceries
Artifacts
- Glaring Spotlight (, Sacrifice Glaring Spotlight, also gain hexproof)
- Runed Arch (target creature(s) with power 2 or less)
- Tawnos's Wand (target creature with power 2 or less)
Equipment
- Whispersilk Cloak (also grants shroud)
Land
- Rogue's Passage -
, 
: target creature is unblockable this turn
Color percentages
There are a total of 88 cards that involve unblockable, which divide by color as such:
- Blue = 59 %
- Multicolor = 11 %
- Red = 7 %
- Artifact = 7 %
- Green = 5 %
- White = 5 %
- Black = 4 %
- Land = 2 %
Cards that allow one to block an unblockable attacking creature
Instants
Creature
"Cannot be blocked (except) by"
A variant of 'unblockable' restricts unblockability to a certain subset of creatures, often naming a color, creature type, number of power or greater, number of blocking creatures or creatures with a certain keyword ability.
Example of "Cannot be blocked (except) by"
Creatures that are "Cannot be blocked (except) by"
Cannot be blocked by [color]
- Barrenton Cragtreads Template:WuTemplate:Wu (red)
- Dauthi Horror (white)
- Elder Spawn (red)
- Fylamarid (blue)
- Metathran Transport (blue)
- Mudbrawler Raiders Template:RgTemplate:Rg (blue)
- Raven's Run Dragoon Template:GwTemplate:Gw (black)
- Sacred Knight
(black and/or red) - Sootwalkers Template:BrTemplate:Br (white)
- Wanderbrine Rootcutters Template:UbTemplate:Ub (green)
Cannot be blocked by artifact creatures
Cannot be blocked by creature tokens
Cannot be blocked except by [color or artifact creatures]
- Amrou Seekers (artifact and/or white)
- Dread Warlock (black)
- Manta Ray (blue)
- Prowling Nightstalker (black)
- Skirk Shaman (artifact and/or red)
- Zulaport Enforcer (black)
Cannot be blocked by [creature type]
- Bog Rats (Walls)
- Clockwork Swarm (Walls)
- Flow of Maggots (non-Walls)
- Juggernaut (Walls)
- Otarian Juggernaut (Walls)
- Rampart Crawler (Walls)
- Stromkirk Noble (Humans)
- Vindictive Mob (Saprolings)
Cannot be blocked except by [creature type]
- Deathcult Rogue Template:UbTemplate:Ub (Rogues)
- Evil Eye of Orms-by-Gore (Walls)
- Shifting Sliver (Slivers; grant by all Slivers)
Cannot be blocked by creatures with [keyword ability]
- Gnat Alley Creeper (flying)
- Greater Stone Spirit (flying)
- Stone Spirit (flying)
- Taoist Mystic (horsemanship)
- Zuo Ci, the Mocking Sage (horsemanship)
Cannot be blocked except by creatures with [keyword ability]
- Elven Riders (Walls and/or creatures with flying)
- Noggle Bandit Template:UrTemplate:Ur (defender)
- Orchard Spirit (flying or reach)
- Signal Pest (flying or reach)
- Silhana Ledgewalker (flying)
- Spire Tracer (flying or reach)
- Treetop Rangers (flying)
- Treetop Scout (flying)
Cannot be blocked by more than [number of blocking creatures]
- Charging Rhino (one creature)
- Huang Zhong, Shu General (one creature)
- Ironhoof Ox (one creature)
- Krosan Vorine (one creature)
- Norwood Riders (one creature)
- Stalking Tiger (one creature)
- Yuan Shao, the Indecisive (one creature)
Cannot be blocked except by [number of blocking creatures]
two or more creatures
- Caterwauling Boggart (grant by Goblin or Elemental you control)
- Horde of Boggarts
- Kederekt Creeper
- Ripscale Predator
- Searing Spear Askari (activated ability)
- Stormblood Berserker
- Summit Apes (triggered by as long as controlling a Mountain)
- Terror of Kruin Pass (grant by Werewolf you control)
- Two-Headed Dragon
- Two-Headed Sliver (grant by all Slivers)
- Viashino Runner
- Vine Kami
- Wind Spirit
three or more creatures
Cannot be blocked by creatures with [number of power] or greater
- Amrou Kithkin (power 3)
- Fleet-Footed Monk (power 2)
- Goldmeadow Dodger (power 4)
Spells and Artifacts that grant "Cannot be blocked (except) by"
Cannot be blocked by [color]
- Black Scarab (black)
- Blue Scarab (blue)
- Green Scarab (green)
- Red Scarab (red)
- White Scarab (white)
Cannot be blocked by artifact creatures
Cannot be blocked except by [color or artifact creatures]
- Seeker (artifact and/or white)
Cannot be blocked by [creature type]
- Blazing Torch (Vampires or Zombies)
- Field of Reality (Spirits)
- Tower of Coireall (Walls)
Cannot be blocked except by [creature type]
- Cloak of Invisibility (Walls) (also has phasing)
- Invisibility (Walls)
Cannot be blocked by creatures with [keyword ability]
- Dust Corona (flying)
- Skyblinder Staff (flying)
Cannot be blocked except by creatures with [keyword ability]
- Canopy Cover (flying or reach)
- Infiltrator's Magemark (defender)
- Treetop Bracers (flying)
Cannot be blocked by more than [number of blocking creatures]
- Alpha Authority (one creature, also has hexproof)
- Familiar Ground (one creature)
- Vorrac Battlehorns (one creature)
Cannot be blocked except by [number of blocking creatures]
- Goblin War Drums (two or more creatures)
- Imposing Visage (two or more creatures)
- Madcap Skills (two or more creatures)
Cannot be blocked by creatures with [number of power] or greater
- Kithkin Armor (power 3)
See also
References
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