Rules question Intimidate

[Josh]

Here is the situation:

I attack with a Halo Hunter (Black demon creature with intimidate)

Other player blocks with Blood Seeker (Black Creature, so legal to block)

Now can I play Illusion/Reality on the Blood Seeker ("Target spell or permanent becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.") and change its color to a different color (lets say, white?) What will happen will my Halo Hunter become unblocked or what?

[Dodrio]

why dont you play the illusion/reality before you attack

[Josh]

because I dont know what creature he is going to block me with until after blockers are declared, and I want to change the color of the creature blocking Halo Hunter

[Twanos]

If you wait until after he has declared the blocker it will remain blocked. You would have to change it prior to it being declared.

[seba1983]

once a creature is blocked it remains blocked regardless of what happens to the blocker. if your creature is blocked and the blocker is than killed, bounced, removed etc. your creature will still be blocked. same goes for intimidate.

[Josh]

ok so I understand its still considered block, will these 2 creatures still be dealing combat damage to each other or is it going to be the same as if the blocking creature was removed from combat so they dont longer deal damage to each other even though the halo hunter is still blocked?

[seba1983]

they will still deal combat damage. the blocking creature could not have blocked the attcking creature prior to combat if its color had allready been changed. since its color was changed after blocking the whole intimidate effekt simply does nothing.