Playing a 2 v 2 Commander Home game. Partner has Scalelord Reckoner, I have a buffed Sky Terror 3/3. I play Savage Stomp to fight an opponent's creature. Opponent plays Redirect to make it fight the Scalelord Reckoner. Does Redirect target the Dragon, triggering its ability, or does it change the text of Savage Stomp to force that card to target?
I fixed Scalelord Reckoner's name so that the card tags work. -MadMage
Redirect doesn't target the Reckoner, it only targets the Savage Stomp. Redirect makes the Reckoner become the target of Savage Stomp, but Savage Stomp is not a spell controlled by an opponent of Reckoner's controller (who is your ally), so Reckoner's ability doesn't trigger.
Note that there is no text-changing involved here, target-changing is its own thing entirely.
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I fixed Scalelord Reckoner's name so that the card tags work. -MadMage
Note that there is no text-changing involved here, target-changing is its own thing entirely.