I'm aware that the ruling is "If Spell Queller leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield triggered ability resolves, its leaves-the-battlefield triggered ability triggers, resolves, and does nothing. Then its first triggered ability resolves and exiles the spell forever."
And I'm aware of the "common" situation where that occurs.
Opponent casts CMC 4 or Less spell (Let's say Nahiri's Wrath).
You cast Spell Queller in response. Spell Queller's ETB trigger goes on the stack.
Opponent casts a CMC 4 or less spell to kill Spell Queller (Murder, we'll say)
In response, you Essence Flux the Spell Queller.
It's LTB trigger goes on the stack. Spell Queller ETB's again, trigger goes on the stack, you exile Murder.
The LTB trigger fires, then the previous ETB, and you exile Nahiri's Wrath permanently.
What I'm curious about is if your opponent cast a spell you can't stop with Spell Queller.
Since the card does not have a "may" in its ETB trigger, it has to exile any spell it can target when that trigger resolves, right?
So, in that situation above, if the opponent instead played Throttle, and you still flickered it with Essence Flux, would the Nahiri's Wrath be exiled forever, or until this iteration of Spell Queller leaves the battlefield?
The blinked SQ has to legally target a spell if possible. The only legal target is Nahiri's Wrath. And since this trigger resolves first, it gets to exile the spell (which can be recast when this SQ leaves the battlefield). The former recast trigger does nothing becasue there is no spell to recast for it. And the former exile trigger is countered by the game rules when it tries to resolve, because its only target is already gone.
Apart from what was said, no one in his right mind would ever cast his Murder or whatever while the ETB is still on the stack. Then you could just let the kill-spell resolve without casting your Essence Flux and he would never get his card back.
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And I'm aware of the "common" situation where that occurs.
Opponent casts CMC 4 or Less spell (Let's say Nahiri's Wrath).
You cast Spell Queller in response.
Spell Queller's ETB trigger goes on the stack.
Opponent casts a CMC 4 or less spell to kill Spell Queller (Murder, we'll say)
In response, you Essence Flux the Spell Queller.
It's LTB trigger goes on the stack.
Spell Queller ETB's again, trigger goes on the stack, you exile Murder.
The LTB trigger fires, then the previous ETB, and you exile Nahiri's Wrath permanently.
What I'm curious about is if your opponent cast a spell you can't stop with Spell Queller.
Since the card does not have a "may" in its ETB trigger, it has to exile any spell it can target when that trigger resolves, right?
So, in that situation above, if the opponent instead played Throttle, and you still flickered it with Essence Flux, would the Nahiri's Wrath be exiled forever, or until this iteration of Spell Queller leaves the battlefield?
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