How does Spellskite work with multiple targets?
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Spellskite’s ability can be used to change the target of a spell or ability with multiple targets to Spellskite, but it can only change one target at a time, and the new target must be a legal target for the spell or ability. If a spell or ability has multiple targets, you can activate Spellskite’s ability multiple times to change each target to Spellskite, as long as Spellskite is a legal target for each instance.
Frequently Asked Questions
General Questions
- Can Spellskite redirect multiple targets?: You can’t target the same creature or player more than once with the same spell or ability, so you can change one target to Spellskite, but not multiple targets to the same Spellskite.
- Is Spellskite an illegal target?: Spellskite has to be a legal target of the target spell or ability for its activated ability to work, and if it’s not, the ability won’t do anything when it resolves.
- Can Spellskite change the target of equipment?: You can target the equip ability, but your Spellskite is an illegal target for the equipment, so it will resolve doing nothing.
Interaction with Other Abilities
- Can you change the target of a counter with Spellskite?: Spellskite’s ability can’t be used to counter any spells or abilities, it can only change a target of a spell or ability to Spellskite if Spellskite can be a legal target.
- Does Spellskite steal equipment?: You can’t steal an equipment by just changing the target of the equip ability, as the equip ability restricts what creatures can be targeted.
- What is the best use of Spellskite?: Spellskite is good for protecting creature-based combos, but it’s not effective against Burn spells, and its ability costs mana that could be used for other spells.
Equipment and Auras
- How does Spellskite work with equipment?: You can activate Spellskite’s ability targeting an opponent’s equip ability, but the equip ability has a restriction on what creatures can be targeted.
- Can Spellskite work with auras?: Spellskite can change the target of an aura spell on the stack to itself, but auras only target while they’re on the stack.
- Does Spellskite work with Hexproof?: If you change the target of a spell or ability to Spellskite and then give Spellskite Hexproof, the spell or ability will fizzle because the target is now illegal.
Activation and Legality
- What is the Spellskite activated ability?: The activation of Spellskite’s ability doesn’t have any restrictions on how many times it can be activated, as long as you can pay the activation cost and there is a legal target.
- Does Spellskite work on Planeswalkers?: You can use Spellskite to direct a spell with an illegal target towards it, but it will not be a legal target, and the spell will return to its default target.
- Can you redirect a counter with Spellskite?: Spellskite is a creature, not a spell, and therefore is not a legal target for Counterspell or any other counter target spell effect.
Edge Cases
- Can you change the target of an equip ability?: The legal targets of the equip ability do not change, you can only reroute to one of the creatures that could have been originally targeted by the ability.
- Is Spellskite worth it?: Spellskite is not a baseline good card in modern decks, and its value depends on the specific metagame and deck archetype.
- Do equip spells count as targeting?: Yes, activating the Equip ability of an Equipment involves targeting the creature, and the word target is included in the reminder text for Equip.