Rhadamanthus Thanks, I’m definitely glad that’s the current rule now, even if it would put me at a disadvantage in certain scenarios haha

Sorry if a question like this has been asked a million times, but the other night my buddies were saying that the legendary rule keeps two of the same legendary’s from being on the battlefield at the same time regardless of who’s controlling them. I’m not sure if that’s true though. Last Sunday I was playing with coworkers and a dude made a token copy of my Avacyn, Angel of Hope and no one brought up the legendary rule. I’ve read the part of the rule that says: “If two or more legendary permanents with the same name are controlled by the same player, that player chooses one of them, and the rest are put into their owners' graveyards.” I don’t see how that would keep opponents from making a copy of someone else’s legendary, or even keep two opponents from playing the same commander. If there’s a part in the rule that I’m overlooking please let me know and thanks in advance.

Since Encroaching turns all nonland permanents into artifacts including aura enchantments in the graveyard, would you be able to then bring auras back with Dance of the Manse? I’m assuming no, but I’m still curious how the interaction works.

Actually I already found the answer by googling haha, you can’t change the mode of the spell unfortunately

Could I change the spell’s *effect, I should say

So let’s say someone plays Abrade, or any other card that gives the player two or more separate options for a targeting effect. In this scenario let’s say the player chooses “3 damage to target creature” for Abrade. If I play Deflecting Swat in response to it, would I be able to change the spell’s target to “Destroy target artifact” instead? Not sure if it could work that way but at the same time I don’t see why not since it would be a legal target for the spell‍♂️