{"id":3365,"date":"2013-06-07T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2015-02-05T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T23:54:50","slug":"punish-the-enemy-can-resolve-with-only-one-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2013\/06\/punish-the-enemy-can-resolve-with-only-one-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Punish the Enemy can resolve with only one target"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When casting a spell, you have to select a legal target for each instance of the word \u201ctarget\u201d in that spell. \u00a0So for Punish the Enemy<\/a>, you need to be able to target both one creature and one player to cast it — although the creature doesn\u2019t have to be controlled by the player you targeted, and vice versa. \u00a0If your opponent has hexproof, you can target yourself, but you can\u2019t choose to just deal 3 damage to your opponent\u2019s creature.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, when the spell tries to resolve, \u00a0the spell does as much as it can to the targets that are still legal. \u00a0As long as one target is still legal, the spell will still resolve, even if all the rest are now illegal. \u00a0As a concrete example, if you target your opponent and your opponent\u2019s Bear Cub, and your opponent gives the Bear Cub<\/a> protection from red in response, Punish the Enemy will still punish your opponent for 3. \u00a0Not bad!<\/p>\n

Today’s Rules Tip written by Paul Baranay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When casting a spell, you have to select a legal target for each instance of the word \u201ctarget\u201d in that spell. \u00a0So for , you need to be able to target both one creature and one player to cast it — although the creature doesn\u2019t have to be controlled by the player you targeted, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}