I am fairly new to MTG I started over a month ago but I just had a few questions my friends and I play at least twice a week but they have been playing for years so when they tell me a rule I kind of just have to accept it since I don't know any better but I thought I would look into it, we were playing the other day and she told that you can kill an Enchantment Creature with destroy target enchantment so i wasn't sure if that was true or if destroy target enchantment only worked on actual spell enchantments and not on creatures just wanted to make sure before I enter a tourney and am like BOOM i kill your creature with this spell and they are like yeah you're dumb lol.
Another question I had was we were playing another game and I'm still kind of fuzzy on the whole stack rule so my friend played a card that gave +2/+2 to all creatures she had we were playing a 3 way duel and I was like if you only attack player 3 not me then i won't counter your spell that gives them 2/2 so she didn't say anything I assumed she wouldn't attack me but then she did so i played my counter spell but they told me I couldn't play it since the spell she played had already been resolved and was no longer a spell since it already gave the creatures the 2/2 is this true or is she wrong?
If a spell says "Destroy target enchantment" the only requirement is that the target be a permanent that has the enchantment type. An enchantment creature is both a creature and an enchantment, so it is a legal target.
As for you not being able to counter their spell, that's true. They're allowed to lie about what they're going to do. It's not necessarily the nicest thing to do, especially in a casual environment, and could easily earn them a bad reputation when it comes to in-game politics in your play group, but it's perfectly legal. There's no rules that force a player to stay true to their word when it comes to what they'll do later in the game.
she didn't actually say she was going to attack him i just said if you attack him i wont stop it and she just kinda went HMMMMMM so i took it as ok lol but that's good to know thank you very much
when it comes to politics in a casual format like EDH, its really up to the group to decide how to handle those situations. That said, you should have demanded an answer before you let the spell resolve.
In the strictest of game terms, once you pass on the ability to respond to an effect on the stack, you pass priority back to the controller of the effect and it resolves.
I play EDH in a 3 to 4 pod group. When situations arise where I am able to deal with a threat but am unsure as to who it will attack (as I rather not waste a resource on a non-threat) I always ask. If they say they won't attack me, they gotta keep there word and if they say nothing, I assume they either want to attack me or are unsure, so I deal with it. We have a sorta unspoken rule about always keeping our word in the room. Otherwise, if someone lies once, you can never trust them to keep their word in the future. But once priority is passed, you miss your chance to counter it. Sucks they didnt warn you ahead of time since you are new. I suggest switching to mono blue if that keeps happening
In a similar vein to your original question, if you had a card that cared about noncreature spells (say Quiet Contemplation), casting an enchantment creature would not count.
So overall, if something asks for a type, if any of a card's types are that, you're fine. If something asks for something not to be a type, none of a card's types can be that thing.
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Another question I had was we were playing another game and I'm still kind of fuzzy on the whole stack rule so my friend played a card that gave +2/+2 to all creatures she had we were playing a 3 way duel and I was like if you only attack player 3 not me then i won't counter your spell that gives them 2/2 so she didn't say anything I assumed she wouldn't attack me but then she did so i played my counter spell but they told me I couldn't play it since the spell she played had already been resolved and was no longer a spell since it already gave the creatures the 2/2 is this true or is she wrong?
Thank you for the help in advance
As for you not being able to counter their spell, that's true. They're allowed to lie about what they're going to do. It's not necessarily the nicest thing to do, especially in a casual environment, and could easily earn them a bad reputation when it comes to in-game politics in your play group, but it's perfectly legal. There's no rules that force a player to stay true to their word when it comes to what they'll do later in the game.
In the strictest of game terms, once you pass on the ability to respond to an effect on the stack, you pass priority back to the controller of the effect and it resolves.
So overall, if something asks for a type, if any of a card's types are that, you're fine. If something asks for something not to be a type, none of a card's types can be that thing.