Banishing Light doesn't trigger until it enters the battlefield. While it's on the stack it's a spell, but it doesn't target anything. Once it enters the battlefield it becomes an enchantment, not a spell, that targets something to exile.
Banishing Light doesn't trigger until it enters the battlefield. While it's on the stack it's a spell, but it doesn't target anything. Once it enters the battlefield it becomes an enchantment, not a spell, that targets something to exile.
I still don't think that guy is right what gives him the credibility anything with a ****** target can b ****** swerved
Swerve can only target a spell with a single target. Banishing Light (the spell) has no targets: it's just an enchantment. It has an enter the battlefield trigger that targets, but that trigger is an ability, it is not a spell. Since it's not a spell, Swerve cannot target it. Compare the wording of Swerve to Willbender, which can change the target of an ability.
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Needless to say, an argument ensued regarding him thinking a Swerve could effect the target of Banishing Light's Enter the Battlefield trigger.
Can you folks explain to him why he's wrong?
I still don't think that guy is right what gives him the credibility anything with a ****** target can b ****** swerved
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Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.