{"id":787,"date":"2011-06-09T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dcifamily.org\/?p=787"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:08:38","slug":"if-you-enchant-spellskite-with-canopy-cover-youre-being-overprotective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/2011\/06\/if-you-enchant-spellskite-with-canopy-cover-youre-being-overprotective\/","title":{"rendered":"If you enchant Spellskite with Canopy Cover, you&#8217;re being overprotective."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While a <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> you control is enchanted by\u00a0your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-content\/plugins\/lems-mtg-helper\/lems-mtg-helper-cardfinder.php?find=Canopy+Cover&width=223&height=310\" class=\"jTip\" name=\"\">Canopy Cover<\/a>, it can&#8217;t change the target of spells or abilities your opponents control to itself.\u00a0 This follows the theme for this week.\u00a0 The final set of targets must be legal. \u00a0So it may not be the best choice to use Canopy Cover on your own Spellskite if your intent is to redirect your opponent&#8217;s spells and abilities\u00a0towards it.\u00a0 However, you could still redirect a spell or ability you control to Spellskite.\u00a0 For example, if you tried to equip another creature you control, but your opponent destroys that creature in response, you can redirect your own equip ability to Spellskite instead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNow I know you may be thinking, &#8220;I\u00a0should put Canopy Cover on my opponent&#8217;s Spellskite!&#8221; Well, yes, you can do that.\u00a0But\u00a0don&#8217;t get ahead of yourself.\u00a0Since you still control the Canopy Cover, the only person who can&#8217;t target the Spellskite is its controller (or your other opponents, if you&#8217;re in a multiplayer game).\u00a0 Spellskite can still redirect anything you control that could target it.\u00a0 In short, you&#8217;re probably not getting the effect you want this way.<\/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>While a you control is enchanted by\u00a0your , it can&#8217;t change the target of spells or abilities your opponents control to itself.\u00a0 This follows the theme for this week.\u00a0 The final set of targets must be legal. \u00a0So it may not be the best choice to use Canopy Cover on your own Spellskite if 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":[108,17],"tags":[308,252],"language":[1196],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activatedabilities","category-staticabilities","tag-canopy-cover","tag-spellskite","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4899,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/4899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/rulestips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}