Well, in most cases, it means nothing. Your opponent still can’t counter your spell by casting Negate<\/a>, and if Judge’s Familiar<\/a> is sacrificed in response, you can choose to pay no mana, and the spell will still resolve. However, there is another way a spell can be countered: <\/p>\n When a spell tries to resolve, if all of its targets are illegal, it will be countered by the game rules. This means that if you attempt to Abrupt Decay a Champion of the Parish<\/a>, and your opponent responds with Faith’s Shield<\/a> giving the Champion protection from black, your Abrupt Decay will be countered. It doesn’t matter that your opponent used a spell to grant protection, since what’s countering Abrupt Decay is the game rules, not the spell itself. The same would be true if the target gained hexproof or shroud.<\/p>\n Today’s Rules Tip written by at first looks a lot like the other cards in its cycle, in that it “can’t be countered.” But look closer and you’ll see a difference… those four little words at the end: “…by spells or abilities.” What does this mean? Well, in most cases, it means nothing. Your opponent still can’t counter your spell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,15],"tags":[804,805,806],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casting-playing-a-spell-ability","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-abrupt-decay","tag-faiths-shield","tag-rangers-guile","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJen Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"