I know if if player 1 casts Vampiric Link but player 2 uses a Spellskite ability in response, player 1 would still gain life assuming player 2 attacked with Spellskite and it somehow had more than 0 power.
Am I correct in thinking this happens because Player 1 is still the controller of the enchantment, regardless of which permanent it is enchanting?
I ask for this situation in particular:
Player 1 has a Death's Shadow in play and player 2 steals it with Eldrazi Obligator. Player 2 has more than 13 life. Since the Death's Shadow is now controlled by Player 2, it's power/toughness is no longer determined by Player 1, but rather player 2. Is it correct that the Death's Shadow would die?
Even if Vampiric Link's target changes to a creature with a different controller, the controller of Vampiric Link itself wouldn't change (compare Spellskite's ability with Commandeer), so that the "you" on Vampiric Link refers to whoever controls Vampiric Link as its triggered ability triggers (C.R. 109.5). Compare Vampiric Link with Sixth Sense, which gives the enchanted creature an ability that has a "you" that refers to whoever controls that creature as that ability triggers (C.R. 109.5). (To be clear, Spellskite's ability can target Vampiric Link only while Vampiric Link is a spell, not while it's on the battlefield [C.R. 110.1, 111.1, 114.1b]).
For the Death's Shadow question: Death's Shadow refers to its controller's life total, since that's what "your life total" means (C.R. 109.5). If that life total is 13 or more, and nothing else affects Death's Shadow's power and toughness, then Death's Shadow will go to the graveyard as a state-based action for having 0 or less toughness (C.R. 704.5f).
Thanks. I initially thought of the Vampiric Link example thinking it wouldn't die, but then someone pointed out the key difference was that the enchantments controller never changed. After they made that point, it seemed like it made sense, but I just wanted to confirm.
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Am I correct in thinking this happens because Player 1 is still the controller of the enchantment, regardless of which permanent it is enchanting?
I ask for this situation in particular:
Player 1 has a Death's Shadow in play and player 2 steals it with Eldrazi Obligator. Player 2 has more than 13 life. Since the Death's Shadow is now controlled by Player 2, it's power/toughness is no longer determined by Player 1, but rather player 2. Is it correct that the Death's Shadow would die?
For the Death's Shadow question: Death's Shadow refers to its controller's life total, since that's what "your life total" means (C.R. 109.5). If that life total is 13 or more, and nothing else affects Death's Shadow's power and toughness, then Death's Shadow will go to the graveyard as a state-based action for having 0 or less toughness (C.R. 704.5f).
EDIT (Feb. 19): Correctness edit.