Quick question about Balustrade Spy
Asked by erabel 12 years ago
Just a quick clarification. If I cast Balustrade Spy , or something similar (Destroying the Evidence comes to mind, but there must be others), and when my opponent starts milling, they don't have any lands in their deck, will the cards revealed by my card go to their graveyard, or does nothing happen to them, since they never hit land?
Also, I should say when they start revealing cards, not when they start milling.
February 3, 2013 4:46 p.m.
If they start milling, and they end up milling their whole deck because they have no land cards in their library...they lose, and you win.
February 3, 2013 4:52 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #4
If a resolving effect tries to do something impossible, it will do as much as it can and keep moving. If your opponent has no more lands left in his library when he starts "grinding" (this was actually the Dimir keyword mechanic during design, and its playtest name was Grind), then he'll keep revealing cards until he can't reveal any more. The resolving effect continues to do what it can, and all the cards he revealed are put into his graveyard.
February 3, 2013 4:57 p.m.
Note that you don't automatically win if you mill the whole deck, you only win if they try to draw with no cards in their deck. Balustrade Spy and Laboratory Maniac have some interesting synergy, its just to bad it can't really be leveraged real well outside of legacy
erabel says... #1
EDIT: Destroy the Evidence
February 3, 2013 4:46 p.m.