Had a few odd interactions come up that I thought I knew how they worked out so I wanted to check up on them for sure. My opponent has a spellskite in play, which of the following situations can they redirect which effects to it?
1. I cast electrolyze dealing 1 damage to skite and 1 to the player.
2. I use Kolaghan's command choosing shatter mode on the skite and shock mode on the player.
To general points to kick off with. A single game object can only be targetted once per instance of the world target on the spell or ability. Secondly any spell or ability is legal target for the ability on spellskite it just might not do anything when it comes to resolve.
go for the throat can't target an artifact creature so when the ability on spellskite comes to resolve it won't do anything and the original target will be destroyed
4. I target 5 different artifacts with by force including the spellskite.
Since the spellskite is already targetted by the spell your opponent can't redirect the spell away from any of the other 4 artifacts. All 5 will be destroyed.
1. I cast electrolyze dealing 1 damage to skite and 1 to the player.
2. I use Kolaghan's command choosing shatter mode on the skite and shock mode on the player.
3. I target a green creature with go for the throat.
4. I target 5 different artifacts with by force including the spellskite.
5. I target an enchantment with disenchant.
Electrolyze as cast here needs to seperate targets so both the player and the spellskite will be dealt damage
Both modes can be changed to the spellskite so the player won't be dealt any damage
go for the throat can't target an artifact creature so when the ability on spellskite comes to resolve it won't do anything and the original target will be destroyed
Since the spellskite is already targetted by the spell your opponent can't redirect the spell away from any of the other 4 artifacts. All 5 will be destroyed.
Disenchant is not a modal spell so the spellskite will remain a legal target. Its going to be destroyed.
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