I was playing a casual game last night with one of my friends and at the end of the game I had out both an Avatar of Woe and a Phyrexian Dreadnought with ten life and my friend cast Delirium targeting my Phyrexian so quickly before Delirium resolves I tapped Avatar of Woe to destroy Phyrexian. I’d like to know if I still would have gotten dealt damage from his delirium? Thank you.
If you remove something from being a valid target before the spell targeting it resolves, if that spell had only that one target, the spell fizzles, since the target no longer exists.
When a spell fizzles it is put into the graveyard with no effect.
So as long as you used Woe's ability to kill your Dreadnought in response to Delirium, Delirium would fizzle.
If you already let part of Delirium resolve (like say you let it tap Phyrexian Dreadnought) then it would be too late to respond and you would have to let the rest of the card resolve entirely, as partial resolving is not a thing. Once part Delirium officially starts effecting things on the battlefield (once it starts resolving), no one has priority until it is done resolving.
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If you remove something from being a valid target before the spell targeting it resolves, if that spell had only that one target, the spell fizzles, since the target no longer exists.
When a spell fizzles it is put into the graveyard with no effect.
So as long as you used Woe's ability to kill your Dreadnought in response to Delirium, Delirium would fizzle.
If you already let part of Delirium resolve (like say you let it tap Phyrexian Dreadnought) then it would be too late to respond and you would have to let the rest of the card resolve entirely, as partial resolving is not a thing. Once part Delirium officially starts effecting things on the battlefield (once it starts resolving), no one has priority until it is done resolving.