Does Cerulean Wisps fizzle if you don't target a creature.
Asked by TheGodofNight 9 years ago
A friend was playing Weird Storm, and he cast Cerulean Wisps, targeting no creature, and then he drew a card. We wanted to make sure this was correct. If the first part of the spell has no target, does the entire spell fizzle, or only the target part, but he still gets to draw. Thanks in advance.
filledelanuit says... #3
A spell will fizzle if all of the targets are illegal when it goes to resolve. So in this case the spell wouldn't do anything. If only some of the targets are illegal then you only do the parts of the spell that can be legally executed. For example you cast Hex targeting an illsusion which dies. The other five creatures would die and the spell wouldn't fizzle because it still has some of its original targets.
hyperlocke says... Accepted answer #1
You need to assign targets to spells that require you to. Casting such a spell without target is illegal. It doesn't fizzle, the game is rewound.
601.2. To cast a spell is to take it from where it is (usually the hand), put it on the stack, and pay its costs, so that it will eventually resolve and have its effect. Casting a spell follows the steps listed below, in order. If, at any point during the casting of a spell, a player is unable to comply with any of the steps listed below, the casting of the spell is illegal; the game returns to the moment before that spell started to be cast (see rule 717, Handling Illegal Actions). Announcements and payments cant be altered after theyve been made.
601.2a [...]
601.2b [...]
601.2c The player announces his or her choice of an appropriate player, object, or zone for each target the spell requires. [...]
January 10, 2015 12:09 p.m.