Antimatter + Oty

[Reefa]

Tried the search function, found nothing. Seems like a bug to me, if you antimatter a 2/7 (f.e.) Oty, it becomes -2/7, but if it eats becomes -1, 0, 1 instead of -3, -4.

Regards, Reefa

[pikachufan2164]

Not a bug, but an intended feature.

Remember, the Otyugh gets +1/+1 when it uses Devour. Add the integers.

-2 + 1 = -1

Therefore, a -2/7 Otyugh will be -1/8 after it uses Devour.

This is also true for the Growth and Ablaze abilities (i.e. -7/1 Lava Destroyer uses Growth and becomes -5/3).

[Reefa]

But then, the attack power isn't really reversed. Instead's more a thing of a negative one-time mirror.

Regards, Reefa

[Xinef]

Antimatter is a one-time effect. It is not a 'state', in fact after you use antimatter on a creature it is not 'marked as being antimattered'.
The only thing antimatter does is replacing current attack with a negated value of current attack. By current I mean at the time you play antimatter, not all the time afterwards.
So 2 attack will be replaced by -2 attack, but -5 attack will be replaced by 5 attack and any spell or effect changing that value does not know if the creature was antimattered or not, because it is not a 'state', it is a one-time change.