In MTG shadowmoor does wither kill a creature if it goes below 1 toughness?

Question

Hey, i just wanna know for example if i attack a 1/1 creature with a 1/1 creature with wither, it would reduce it to a 0/0 does that creature then die or is it just useless fodder for shoving in the way of other creatures? any info would be great thanks!

Answer 1

Any creature with a zero toughness will go to the graveyard inmediatly as a state-based effect. In plain english, if any creature has toughness zero (4/0, X/0, etc) it will be sent to th graveyard.

In your example when the 1/1 gets a -1/-1 counter, it will become a 0/0, and sent to the graveyard inmeadiatly.

Answer 2

yes as soon as a creatures tuffness = 0 its destroyed.

Answer 3

Yeah it dies. Wither isn't really any different from dealing normal damage. It's only that it's -1/-1 counters which of course stay forever. And a creature with 0 toughness goes to the graveyard as a result of a state based effect. Unless it's indestructible. But that can be worked around too with cards like sudden death and others of the like. Hope this helped!

Answer 4

Alex is partially right.

whither is great if you are playing against a stompy deck (huge creatures).  Though they will destroy your creatures when they attack they will slowly become weaker thereby letting you kill them off too.  The -1/-1 counters stay on until the creature goes away (death, bounce, etc).

Once a creature goes to 0 toughness, it is automatically put into the graveyard.  You cannot play a spell or ability fast enough to stop it from dying.  Though you can respond to the damage being dealt, once the damage resolves, it dies as a state-based effect.  Even indestructible cannot evade this.  No matter how strong a creature is, once it's toughness is 0, it dies.

Also, in your example, they both will die.  The withering 1/1 will die because it was dealt 1 damage to kill it.  The other 1/1 will die because the -1/-1 counter will make it a 0/0 and therefore die as a SBE.  Now, if you have a 1/1 with whither and attack and they block with a 2/2, your 1-1 will die but the 2/2 will become 1/1 because it will gain a -1/-1 counter.  Note, Shadowmoor does have cards that remove the counters from creatures.