Does equipping/enchanting a creature target it?
Asked by acronix 13 years ago
Ok dumb question, but is equipping or enchanting a creature considered targeting it? I believe enchanting with an aura counts as targeting, but I'm not sure about it, and I'm even less sure about equipping one.
Coming back to this, now with Fate Reforged and Manifest. Say I have a Frost Walker and I used Cloudform to manifest it onto the field. Cloudform is attached to it as a face-down 2/2 creature, and then on my next turn a pay Frost Walker's 1U to flip it. I have already read that Cloudform will stay attached to the creature it enchanted, effectively making Frost Walker a 4/1 with flying and hexproof. Now, when Frost Walker is flipped up, is it's ability triggered because of Cloudform?
I would side that it does not trigger, because Cloudform did not "target" Frost Walker in the first place, since it was attached when it was a face-down creature.
And now that Frost Walker has hexproof, it can no longer be the target of any spells or abilities an opponent controls.
What do you think?
OmegaSerris says... Accepted answer #1
Yes, equipping to a creature targets. 'Equip: X' is just shorthand for:
X: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.
Attaching auras is another story. If the enchantment is being cast (you pay it's mana cost while it is in your hand, for example) it DOES target. So an Aura cannot be placed on a Shrouded creature if it is cast.
There is a loophole though. If an Aura is placed onto the battlefield (Open the Vaults
), the controller can attach it to any legal object (anything it can normally enchant), shrouded or not. That action does not target.
March 14, 2012 3:15 a.m.