Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker +3
Asked by dgsesta 12 years ago
If I roll Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker up +3, do I have to desroy a target noncreature permanent even if my opponent does not control any permanents?
The long definition.
601.2c The player announces his or her choice of an appropriate player, object, or zone for each target the spell requires. A spell may require some targets only if an alternative or additional cost (such as a buyback or kicker cost), or a particular mode, was chosen for it; otherwise, the spell is cast as though it did not require those targets. If the spell has a variable number of targets, the player announces how many targets he or she will choose before he or she announces those targets. The same target can't be chosen multiple times for any one instance of the word "target" on the spell. However, if the spell uses the word "target" in multiple places, the same object, player, or zone can be chosen once for each instance of the word "target" (as long as it fits the targeting criteria). If any effects say that an object or player must be chosen as a target, the player chooses targets so that he or she obeys the maximum possible number of such effects without violating any rules or effects that say that an object or player can't be chosen as a target. The chosen players, objects, and/or zones each become a target of that spell. (Any abilities that trigger when those players, objects, and/or zones become the target of a spell trigger at this point; they'll wait to be put on the stack until the spell has finished being cast.)
February 5, 2013 5:51 p.m.
Well, by the time I ultimate him once or twice and start going through the cycle of rolling him up and ultimating him again to kill them, they usually run out of permanents to sac and targets for his +3. I suppose it doesn't matter that I'm killing my own lands by that time anyway though since I've pretty much already won. Thank you all for the clarification!
JMANNO33O says... #1
Only if you want to use his +3. It says target so you must target something to use it.
February 5, 2013 5:49 p.m.