{"id":777,"date":"2011-06-06T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=777"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:08:38","slug":"spellskite-cant-steal-your-opponents-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/06\/spellskite-cant-steal-your-opponents-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellskite can&#8217;t steal your opponent&#8217;s equipment."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Spellskite&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Spellskite<\/a> week.  This week we will be looking at five different rule tips and interactions involving a deceptively complex new card from New Phyrexia.  All of the posts this week were submitted by Josh Stansfield.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs awesome as Spellskite can be, he can never convince the game that he&#8217;s your opponent&#8217;s creature (unless, of course, your opponent takes control of him).\u00a0 The Equip keyword means this: &#8220;Attach this equipment to target creature you control. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.&#8221; The equip ability can only target a creature controlled by the player activating that ability (&#8220;target creature you control&#8221;), and changing the target\u00a0of a spell or ability doesn&#8217;t change the controller of that spell or ability.\u00a0 When changing a target, the end result must represent a legal way the spell or ability could have been put on the stack\u00a0in the first place.\u00a0 Since you can&#8217;t choose a new legal target,\u00a0the original target remains unchanged.\u00a0 That equip ability will resolve just like it would have without Spellskite&#8217;s\u00a0failed interception.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Rules Tip was written by Josh Stansfield, a level 1 judge from Orange, California, United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, welcome to week. This week we will be looking at five different rule tips and interactions involving a deceptively complex new card from New Phyrexia. All of the posts this week were submitted by Josh Stansfield. \u00a0 As awesome as Spellskite can be, he can never convince the game that he&#8217;s your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[252],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","tag-spellskite","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}