Can you counter your own counterspell?
Asked by misterquack 10 years ago
I was wondering if you cast a counterspell, could your opponent cast a spell that changes the target of the counterspell to itself?
Actual comprehensive rules rule:
114.4. A spell or ability on the stack is an illegal target for itself.
June 2, 2014 3:35 p.m.
GreatSword says... #3
A smarter idea would be to make the Counterspell target the Misdirection .
June 2, 2014 3:46 p.m.
KrosanTusker says... #4
What they can do is to change the target of the Counterspell to the spell that is changing the targets, eg. Redirect , so the Counterspell fizzles on resolution, as it's target has resolved and is no longer there.
June 2, 2014 3:47 p.m.
GreatSword & KrosanTusker: Hm, I wonder if that would work... Misdirection , just like Swerve or Redirect , uses the word target for the spell the target should change to. According to the rule I mentioned above, both spells cannot target themselves, meaninng regarding the redirecting spells, both the counterspell and the redirection target would have to be legal targets, which none of the reidrect spells mentioned are ...if that's the way it is (and I'm really not sure on that).
June 2, 2014 3:56 p.m.
Well, errata on those cards proves me wrong on the latest statement, so move along, nothing to see here :)
June 2, 2014 4:07 p.m.
Epochalyptik says... #8
@BlueScope: Note that Misdirection and Swerve wouldn't target themselves. They force their own target spell to target something else, but Misdirection and Swerve do not themselves target that new spell.
BlueScope says... #1
A spell or ability on the stack cannot target itself, therefore you wouldn't be able to counter a spell with itself, and it wouldn't be a legal target for an opponent's Redirect .If it would be two different instances of the same spell, then yes, they could target one another.
June 2, 2014 3:33 p.m.