{"id":781,"date":"2011-06-08T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:08:38","slug":"spellskite-cant-be-targeted-by-the-same-spell-or-ability-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/06\/spellskite-cant-be-targeted-by-the-same-spell-or-ability-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Spellskite can&#8217;t be targeted by the same spell or ability twice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a spell or ability asks for multiple targets while only using the word &#8220;target&#8221; once, you must choose different targets.\u00a0 Some spells use the word &#8220;target&#8221; more than once, but specify &#8220;another target,&#8221; and the same concept applies.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Inferno+Titan&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Inferno Titan<\/a>&#8216;s triggered ability, the number of targets chosen\u00a0is locked in when its controller puts that ability on the stack.\u00a0 If\u00a0two or three targets are chosen, they must be different targets.\u00a0 <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> can never force itself to be more than one of those targets, just like you couldn&#8217;t choose it as the same target twice when casting <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Arc+Trail&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Arc Trail<\/a>.\u00a0 A few spells use target more than once and don&#8217;t require those targets to be different.\u00a0 So for something like <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Agony+Warp&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Agony Warp<\/a>, you could change both targets to Spellskite, though it still requires two activations of Spellskite&#8217;s ability if it wasn&#8217;t already a target.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nToday\u2019s Rules Tip was written by Josh Stansfield, a level 1 judge from Orange, California, United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a spell or ability asks for multiple targets while only using the word &#8220;target&#8221; once, you must choose different targets.\u00a0 Some spells use the word &#8220;target&#8221; more than once, but specify &#8220;another target,&#8221; and the same concept applies. In the case of &#8216;s triggered ability, the number of targets chosen\u00a0is locked in when its [&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":[108,15],"tags":[306,28,307,252],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-resolving-spells-and-abilities","tag-agony-warp","tag-arc-trail","tag-inferno-titan","tag-spellskite","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}