Ok so I know that my thoughts on this are probably right but this has been bugging the crap out of me for awhile and I just need to ask someone else.
I was playtesting a couple hours before a modern event and I was running my good ol’ Infect deck (yes, I’m still clinging to a dead deck, leave me alone) and I was testing against a guy’s Esper Control deck. I went to swing in with a Blighted Agent for lethal Infect and in response he used Fatal Push so I responded with Blossoming Defense.
He insisted that Push still killed my Blighted Agent regardless. Is that correct? I mean he was super adamant about it so I was just wondering. I didn’t have a Judge there to ask and I honestly forgot about it till the other day.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
No, his Fatal Push will "fizzle" (= be countered by the game rules for lack of legal targets). Fatal Push's target must be legal at two times: when the spell is cast, and when it would resolve. Due to hexproof, your Blighted Agent is not a legal target for the Push anymore, and it has no ther targets, so it "fizzles". Fatal Push's self replcement effect only changes what CMC the target can have to be destroyed, but it doesn't change the fact, that the creature is targeted. In fact, target legality is checked before that replacement effect is even applied.
I was playtesting a couple hours before a modern event and I was running my good ol’ Infect deck (yes, I’m still clinging to a dead deck, leave me alone) and I was testing against a guy’s Esper Control deck. I went to swing in with a Blighted Agent for lethal Infect and in response he used Fatal Push so I responded with Blossoming Defense.
He insisted that Push still killed my Blighted Agent regardless. Is that correct? I mean he was super adamant about it so I was just wondering. I didn’t have a Judge there to ask and I honestly forgot about it till the other day.
Warning issued for absence of explanation. -MadMage
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Former Rules Advisor
"Everything's better with pirates." - Lodge
(The Gamers: Dorkness Rising)
"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
(Girl Genius - Fairy Tale Theater Break - Cinderella, end of volume 8)
Thanks!