{"id":779,"date":"2011-06-07T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=779"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:08:38","slug":"at-competitive-rel-judges-can-only-answer-the-question-you-ask-not-the-one-you-meant-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/06\/at-competitive-rel-judges-can-only-answer-the-question-you-ask-not-the-one-you-meant-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"At Competitive REL, judges can only answer the question you ask\u2013not the one you meant to ask."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today for <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 we are going to be looking at a tournament interaction regarding the card, and what judges can and cannot do to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan I use Spellskite\u2019s ability on my opponent\u2019s equip ability?\u201d Since the targeting restriction for Spellskite\u2019s ability is simply \u201ctarget spell or ability,\u201d the answer is technically \u201cYes.\u201d You can activate the ability targeting any spell or ability, whether or not that spell or ability has targets, and whether or not the ability would do anything on resolution. Sure, you probably wanted to know, \u201cCan Spellskite\u2019s ability change the target of my opponent\u2019s equip ability to itself?\u201d\u00a0However, judges are prohibited from providing answers that might be interpreted as strategic advice. So make sure you ask the question in a way that permits us to give you the answer we know you\u2019re looking for.<\/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>Today for week we are going to be looking at a tournament interaction regarding the card, and what judges can and cannot do to help. \u201cCan I use Spellskite\u2019s ability on my opponent\u2019s equip ability?\u201d Since the targeting restriction for Spellskite\u2019s ability is simply \u201ctarget spell or ability,\u201d the answer is technically \u201cYes.\u201d You can [&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":[13],"tags":[252],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tournamentrules","tag-spellskite","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}