Question about Battlefield Thaumaturge.
Asked by Savitar1 9 years ago
i'm wondering if i have Battlefield Thaumaturge out and cast Thrive means i can add as many counters i want for 1 Green. or can i not target the same creature more than once? i've read about how strife works, and how it is affectef by the Thaumaturge, but this technically isn't a strife ability so not sure if it works different. Any help would be appreciated.
GreatSword says... #3
A spell can only target a single object once. You can't use Hex to destroy the same creature 6 times; rather, you target 6 different creatures once each.
The same will be true with Thrive : you can only target a single creature once. You can't target it over and over again. Even if you could, Battlefield Thaumaturge 's cost-reducing ability reduces the cost by the number of creatures you target with a spell; not the number of times that spell targets.
Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #1
From the comprehensive rules, I have bolded the relevant part:
601.2c The player announces his or her choice of an appropriate player, object, or zone for each target the spell requires. A spell may require some targets only if an alternative or additional cost (such as a buyback or kicker cost), or a particular mode, was chosen for it; otherwise, the spell is cast as though it did not require those targets. If the spell has a variable number of targets, the player announces how many targets he or she will choose before he or she announces those targets. The same target cant be chosen multiple times for any one instance of the word target on the spell. However, if the spell uses the word target in multiple places, the same object, player, or zone can be chosen once for each instance of the word target (as long as it fits the targeting criteria). If any effects say that an object or player must be chosen as a target, the player chooses targets so that he or she obeys the maximum possible number of such effects without violating any rules or effects that say that an object or player cant be chosen as a target. The chosen players, objects, and/or zones each become a target of that spell. (Any abilities that trigger when those players, objects, and/or zones become the target of a spell trigger at this point; theyll wait to be put on the stack until the spell has finished being cast.)
So no you cannot add infinite counters to 1 creature for G but you can add 1 counter to infinite creatures in your example.
July 6, 2014 1:33 a.m.