Can Spellskite steal equipment?
Asked by RicketyEng 9 years ago
I believe Spellskite can redirect opponents' aura targets to itself, but can it also steal equipment?
This recently came up in a game with my wife and after pausing the game to look at the rules for Equip and rulings for Spellskite we still weren't sure. I did find that the Equip ability states that it targets a creature you control so we reasoned that Spellskite, not being a creature my wife controls, could not successfully redirect the target of her equipment since Spellskite is not a legal target. Is this the correct conclusion?
Epochalyptik says... #2
To be clear, you can activate Spellskite's ability targeting the equip ability. However, you can't change a target to an illegal target, so the ability will do nothing when it resolves (since equip abilities must target a creature their controller controls).
Sam_I_am says... Accepted answer #1
No
You are only able to redirect an ability to target Spellskite if Spellskite is a legal target in the first place.
You can only equip equipment to a creature you control, so if you don't control spellskite, you can't equip the equipment to spellskite, and therefore, spellskite can't steal the equipment.
November 6, 2015 10:49 a.m. Edited.