Spellskite and tales end

Asked by addam11 3 years ago

Hi guys, don't often comment on here, so apologies in advance

But I'm currently in an edh game with a friend who has a Spellskite and a Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy, and I have an Ugin, the Ineffable using his -3 to target and destroy kinnan. In response, my friend activates spellskites ability to change to spellskite, and I in response cast Tale's End to counter the activated ability of spellskite. He says that he can in response activate it again (spellskite) on the ugin activation. Is this allowed?

Thanks

Gidgetimer says... Accepted answer #1

He can. You can activate an activated ability any time you have priority as long it it doesn't have a timing restriction like Birthing Pod or Crown of Doom do.

It is important to note in this specific instance that although Spellskite has a blue color identity because of the Phyrexian mana symbol in its rules text, it is not blue because there is no colored mana in its casting cost or a color indicator. Therefore; the ability will not do anything since it is not a valid target for Ugin's -3.

November 4, 2020 7:14 a.m.

Rhadamanthus says... #2

addam11: An answer to your question has been up for a while. Since there don't seem to be any follow-ups or corrections to be made, I've marked it as the "Accepted answer" so that this topic can move out of the list of unanswered questions. You can take care of this yourself in the future using the green "Mark as Answer" button for the response that you feel best answered your question.

November 10, 2020 1:28 p.m.