<p>Teferi's Protection does work against Infect. You missed a relevant part of the spell's text (emphasis mine):</p>
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<p>Until your next turn, your life total can't change and <strong>you gain protection from everything</strong>. All permanents you control phase out.</p>
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<p>This means all damage to you is prevented (rule 702.16e), which also means the infect creature never applies poison counters to you.</p>
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<p>Technically, you can still gain poison counters (even through the protection) with cards that don't target players or deal damage such as <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ichor%20Rats">Ichor Rats</a> or Proliferate effects, or if the infect damage can't be prevented due to another effect (like <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Stomp">Stomp</a> or <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Questing%20Beast">Questing Beast</a>).</p>

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2021-12-10T02:08:34.000Z
It might be helpful to understand that the "life can't change" clause is not there to protect from damage, but from "each opponent loses life" effects, such as Exsanguinate
Swimmer F
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2021-12-10T08:55:51.637Z
@SwimmerF Not quite. "Life total can't change" also protects against unpreventable damage, which would ignore protection.
Hackworth
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2021-12-12T19:46:47.513Z
@Hackworth Incidentally, unpreventable infect damage ignores both effects.
Douglas
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ryanyuyu
<p><a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Teferi%27s%20Protection">Teferi&#39;s Protection</a> has the clause</p>
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<p>your life total can't change</p>
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<p>If I get hit with a creature with Infect, what happens?</p>

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Does Teferi's Protection protect against Infect?
DenisS
# Does Teferi's Protection protect against Infect?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-12-10)

[Teferi's Protection](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Teferi%27s%20Protection) has the clause

> your life total can't change

If I get hit with a creature with Infect, what happens?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-12-10. Score: 12 | Accepted answer

Teferi's Protection does work against Infect. You missed a relevant part of the spell's text (emphasis mine):

> Until your next turn, your life total can't change and **you gain protection from everything**. All permanents you control phase out.

This means all damage to you is prevented (rule 702.16e), which also means the infect creature never applies poison counters to you.

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Technically, you can still gain poison counters (even through the protection) with cards that don't target players or deal damage such as [Ichor Rats](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Ichor%20Rats) or Proliferate effects, or if the infect damage can't be prevented due to another effect (like [Stomp](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Stomp) or [Questing Beast](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Questing%20Beast)).

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: It might be helpful to understand that the "life can't change" clause is not there to protect from damage, but from "each opponent loses life" effects, such as Exsanguinate  
> **username_3**: @SwimmerF Not quite. "Life total can't change" also protects against unpreventable damage, which would ignore protection.  
> **username_4**: @username_3 Incidentally, unpreventable infect damage ignores both effects.  

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