Printings
Spellskite
Card Information
Type: Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity: 
Set: Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 873
Oracle Text
{U/P}: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.)
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- August 7, 2020
If a spell or ability has a variable number of targets, you can't change the number of targets.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
If Spellskite leaves the battlefield before its ability resolves or otherwise becomes an illegal target for the target spell or ability before its ability resolves, no targets are changed.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
You can activate Spellskite's ability even if Spellskite isn't a legal target for the target spell or ability—or even if that spell or ability has no targets. In this case, no targets are changed.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
If the spell or ability has multiple instances of the word “target,” you choose which one target you're changing to Spellskite as Spellskite's ability resolves.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
If a spell or ability has multiple targets but doesn't use the word “target” multiple times, such as the ability of Deepglow Skate, you can only change one of the targets to Spellskite.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
If changing one target of a spell or ability to Spellskite would make other targets of that spell or ability illegal, that target can't be changed to Spellskite.
Source: wotc
Price History
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