Spellskite and hexproof or shroud

Asked by pedroedmarcos 1 year ago

Hey there,

If someone tryies some removal like Doom Blade on my creature and I activate Spellskite, which has an Swiftfoot Boots equiped. What happens with the doomblade? Does it fizzles?

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

The target of Doom Blade won't change. A target-changing effect can only change a target to a legal target. In your example, Spellskite isn't a legal target for Doom Blade.

115.7a If an effect allows a player to “change the target(s)” of a spell or ability, each target can be changed only to another legal target. If a target can’t be changed to another legal target, the original target is unchanged, even if the original target is itself illegal by then. If all the targets aren’t changed to other legal targets, none of them are changed.

115.7b If an effect allows a player to “change a target” of a spell or ability, the process described in rule 115.7a is followed, except that only one of those targets may be changed (rather than all of them or none of them).

June 23, 2022 9:57 a.m.