Will Zevlor, Elturel Exile's activated ability create copies of Explosion of Riches?

Asked by +Excellente+ 1 year ago

Note: Zevlor's ability has been changed to read 'spell that targets ONLY a single opponent'.

While this question uses explosion of riches as the example, it applies to any card that may make the whole table take an action, but only has one target.

The other thing I'm not sure about is whether explosion of riches would even count as having a target, seeing as a player is chosen after the spell resolves.

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

For this specific example, no, and it's for the reason you think. When you cast Explosion of Riches, it doesn't have any targets. Its effect includes a type of triggered ability called a "reflexive trigger" which triggers from something else happening earlier in the effect. The random targets for damage dealing aren't chosen until that ability actually triggers.

A spell like Flames of the Raze-Boar or Public Execution which can affect many things but only actually "targets" one thing will get copied by Zevlor, Elturel Exile.

March 17, 2023 10:07 a.m.