<p>No, <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Palisade%20Giant">Palisade Giant</a>'s damage redirection effect will not work if it is not a creature.</p>
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<p>614.9. Some effects replace damage dealt to one creature, planeswalker, or player with the same damage dealt to another creature, planeswalker, or player; such effects are called redirection effects. If either creature or planeswalker is no longer on the battlefield when the damage would be redirected, <strong>or is no longer a creature or planeswalker when the damage would be redirected, the effect does nothing</strong>. If damage would be redirected to or from a player who has left the game, the effect does nothing.</p>
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<p>This stems from a more general rule:</p>
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<p>120.1a Damage can’t be dealt to an object that’s neither a creature nor a planeswalker.</p>
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GendoIkari
<p>I was going through my cards as I worked on a <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Myrkul%2C%20Lord%20of%20Bones">Myrkul, Lord of Bones</a> commander deck and saw my <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Palisade%20Giant">Palisade Giant</a>. Does the giant's effect:</p>
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<p>All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to Palisade Giant instead.</p>
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<p>work if it has been turned into an enchantment by Myrkul?</p>
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<p>Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of that card, except it’s an enchantment and loses all other card types.</p>
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Myrkul + Palisade Giant how does it work?
Jesse Davies
# Myrkul + Palisade Giant how does it work?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-06-19)

I was going through my cards as I worked on a [Myrkul, Lord of Bones](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Myrkul%2C%20Lord%20of%20Bones) commander deck and saw my [Palisade Giant](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Palisade%20Giant). Does the giant's effect:

> All damage that would be dealt to you and other permanents you control is dealt to Palisade Giant instead.

work if it has been turned into an enchantment by Myrkul?

> Whenever another nontoken creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that’s a copy of that card, except it’s an enchantment and loses all other card types.

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-06-19. Score: 7

No, [Palisade Giant](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Palisade%20Giant)'s damage redirection effect will not work if it is not a creature.

> 614.9. Some effects replace damage dealt to one creature, planeswalker, or player with the same damage dealt to another creature, planeswalker, or player; such effects are called redirection effects. If either creature or planeswalker is no longer on the battlefield when the damage would be redirected, **or is no longer a creature or planeswalker when the damage would be redirected, the effect does nothing**. If damage would be redirected to or from a player who has left the game, the effect does nothing.

This stems from a more general rule:

> 120.1a Damage can’t be dealt to an object that’s neither a creature nor a planeswalker.


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