Does Cloudshift save a creature from instants?
Asked by Aethaleon 9 years ago
A creature an opponent controls has died this turn and so they decide to play Tragic Slip and use it's morbid effect on one of my creatures. Could I play Cloudshift to save my creature from being destroyed, in response to Tragic Slip ?
FancyTuesday says... Accepted answer #2
Yes. When you "blink" a creature with Cloudshift or some similar effect the creature that enters the battlefield is considered a new entity unrelated to the old one. With Tragic Slip on the stack targeting your creature you remove that target from the game and when Tragic Slip goes to resolve it is left with no target and fizzles.
608.2b If the spell or ability specifies targets, it checks whether the targets are still legal. A target thats moved out of the zone it was in when it was targeted is illegal. Other changes to the game state may cause a target to no longer be legal; for example, its characteristics may have changed or an effect may have changed the text of the spell. If the source of an ability has left the zone it was in, its last known information is used during this process to determine its characteristics. The spell or ability is countered if all its targets, for every instance of the word target, are now illegal. If the spell or ability is not countered, it will resolve normally, affecting only the targets that are still legal. If a target is illegal, the spell or ability cant perform any actions on it or make the target perform any actions.
Epochalyptik says... #1
Yes. When the creature changes zones, it becomes a new object. Upon reentry, it is a new creature and is no longer the target of Tragic Slip . Tragic Slip will fizzle for lack of a legal target.
September 16, 2014 6:44 p.m.