controlling a spell
Asked by jaggthemiller 10 years ago
so me and my friends seen this card, i think its Increasing Vengeance and i was cursious on some of the rules.
is the ''controlled spell'' from your hand...and if so how does overload effects work
To cast Increasing Vengeance you need to have a spell you control on the stack, waiting to resolve.
An an example, you cast Electrickery paying it's overload cost. Then, before it resolves, you cast Increasing Vengeance targetting the electrickery. The copy will include the choice of overloading, so you will then have two overloaded Eletctrickeries on the stack.
May 12, 2014 5:07 p.m.
Absinthman says... #3
Could you please also clarify what exacty you were asking about overload? I'm not sure what is that you want to know.
May 12, 2014 5:08 p.m.
jaggthemiller says... #4
i was thinking that but then i seen Nivmagus Elemental today and it confused me. so based off the answer you given does he work the same way , you cast a spell then discard it to the grave before it resolves?
May 12, 2014 5:10 p.m.
jaggthemiller says... #5
Absinthman my friend asked that meaning if you copy a spell with a overload you get to copy the overload as well ( that was under the knowledge you copy spells from your hand)
May 12, 2014 5:12 p.m.
Absinthman says... #6
Your new understanding of Nivmagus Elemental
is correct. You cast a spell, then you exile it from the stack without having it resolve.
Overload gets copied because you copy the spell as it exists on the stack. If it was cast with overload, then it exists there as such and will be copied in that form.
May 12, 2014 5:17 p.m.
jaggthemiller says... #7
ok thank you for that, that changes alot of deck constructions
Absinthman says... Accepted answer #1
This will require a bit of explaining.
Cards in your hand are not spells, at least not yet. They are "spell cards" which will become spells if you cast them. When you take a spell card from your hand (or any other zone you are allowed to cast it from), put it onto the stack and pay for it, it becomes a "spell". So whenever a card refers to spells, it is talking about spells on the stack that haven't yet resolved.
So if you want to use Increasing Vengeance or any similar copying effect, you must first cast the spell you want to copy. The controller of the spell is the same player who cast it.
May 12, 2014 5:06 p.m.