If I pay to equip an equipment to another creature, can my opponent respond by killing both of the creatures?
Asked by chrizzilla 11 years ago
This happened during a commander game I had awhile back. I had a Medomai the Ageless with Swiftfoot Boots equipped, and I wanted to equip it to another creature. He responded by killing the Medomai and then the other creature. Is this how equipment works? I felt like that shouldn't be how it works, but I didn't press the issue.
Your opponent can target the new creature, but he cannot target Medomai the Ageless until after equip resolves.
There is never a point where Swiftfoot Boots
is between creatures. It is either on Medomai, or on the other creature.
December 6, 2013 11:33 a.m.
Though I do find the idea that they could respond to your actual physical motion of moving the card from one creature to the other to claim that in that moment, the equipment is on neither creature, absolutely hilarious.
December 6, 2013 11:36 a.m.
chrizzilla says... #5
We're both still fairly new to magic, and this is something we've never encountered before.
Devonin says... Accepted answer #1
Equip is an activated ability that goes on the stack. When you activate an equip effect, they get to respond. If in response, they choose to kill the creature you were trying to equip TO that is fine. However, if an equip ability tries to resolve and the target is no longer around, it doesn't unequip from its source, it just stays put.
So if they killed your target before the boots moved over, they'd stay on Medomai, and she'd stay hexproof.
December 6, 2013 11:31 a.m.