Questions about To the Slaughter
Asked by phrosen63 7 years ago
Card: To the Slaughter
Case 1:Who chooses the target?Player A plays To the Slaughter without Delirium. Player B is the target. Player B only has a Creature (not a Planeswalker) can player B choose to sacrifice a Planeswalker? Or does Player A choose that Player B must sacrifice a Creature?
Case 2: Player A casts To the Slaughter on Player B without Delirium. Player B has a Creature and a Planeswalker. Who chooses which of these is to be sacrificed?
Case 3: Player B has either a Planeswalker OR a Creature (not both), Player A wants to play To the Slaughter WITH Delirium. Is Player B a valid target for the spell? Since Player B can't scrifice both, can Player B still be targeted and be forced to sacrifice one?
Thank you.
Biscuitsthegreat says... #2
Player B will decide what they want to sacrifice. If they control no planeswalkers, they must sacrifice a creature, and vice versa. If you cast to the slaughter with delirium, and control either a plansewalker or a creature, they will sacrifice one.
April 25, 2017 8:57 a.m.
Epochalyptik says... #3
The only thing being targeted here is the player. If Player A casts To the Slaughter, he or she chooses its target.
Neither the creature nor the planeswalker is targeted. The targeted player chooses what to sacrifice as the spell resolves. As the above answers explain, Player B can only choose to sacrifice something he or she controls. If delirium is in effect and Player B is instructed to sacrifice something he or she doesn't control, that part of the spell's instructions is ignored.
lithium142 says... Accepted answer #1
Whoever is being targeted makes the desicion if they have both a creature and planeswalker. However, they can only choose to sacrifice something they actually have. If they only have a creature, they must sacrifice a creature, and the other way around.
In your last case having delirium but only a creature or only a planeswalker, yes the spell will still resolve normally, they will just sacrifice whichever one of the two types they have.
April 25, 2017 8:54 a.m.