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| Casual | Legal |
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Blurred Mongoose
Creature — Mongoose
Shroud (This permanent can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Blurred Mongoose can't be countered.
Neotrup on Can a spell that can't …
7 years ago
GearNoir is 100% wrong. You can attempt to counter spells that can't be countered and attempt to destroy permanents with indestructable. From the gatherer rulings for Blurred Mongoose (another uncountable spell):
10/4/2004: Counterspells can be cast that target it, but when they resolve they simply don't counter it since it can't be countered.
Complicated situation that shouldn't come up as you're 2-for-1ing yourself, but the play works just fine, Abrupt Decay is a fine target. Also, you're fine to target something else with Abrupt Decay, to avoid 2-for-1ing yourself, if there are other targets. In your current scenario Abrupt Decay will be countered for having an illegal target on resolution (as the Goblin Flectomancer is gone), then Counterspell will be countered for having an illegal target as Abrupt Decay already attempted to resolve. If they were using the counter-draw mode of Cryptic Command they would not be able to draw in either situation as Abrupt Decay always leaves the stack first, but in other situations the command can be cast to draw a card by targeting an uncounterable spell underneath it on the stack.