Will Extirpate get "countered" if they remove the card I named from their graveyard?
Asked by ArrestedSnow 5 years ago
If soomeone uses a Krark-Clan Ironworks ability with a Myr Retriever or Scrap Trawler to take a card I'm targeting with Extirpate out of the graveyard, does my spell fizzle? I still targeted the card even if it moves zones after the fact.
Small correction: When a spell fizzles it is not countered. This is a recent rules change, and even the recent game night product erroneously uses the term countered. This doesn't make much of a game play difference because the only card that cared about whether something was countered, rather than how it was countered, was Multani's Presence. This has however changed the oracle text for Gilded Drake to no longer mention countering, and made cards like Abrupt Decay have simpler oracle text.
November 24, 2018 10:10 a.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
Hmmm. I guess I forgot about that rules change because it literally never matters. How recent was that?
November 24, 2018 10:55 a.m.
It was with Dominaria, tucked behind some bigger rules and templating changes that rolled out at the same time.
November 24, 2018 12:48 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #5
ArrestedSnow: Answers to this question have been up for a while. I chose one to mark as the "Accepted Answer" so that the thread can move out of the Unanswered queue. Please remember to take care of this yourself in the future. I usually try to avoid selecting my own response when I have to do this but in this case it was the one I felt most directly answered the question. If you prefer another response, feel free to re-select.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Yes, it will get countered. If a targeted spell doesn't have any legal targets left when it's time for it to start resolving then it gets countered by the rules of the game instead. In your example, Extirpate will get countered and none of its effects will happen.
November 23, 2018 1:40 p.m.