#selective snare

[art-of-mtg]

Selective Snare (Guilds of Ravnica) - Alex Konstad

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[magicjudge]

If I cast Selective Snare targeting Ink-Treader Nephilim, what happens?

Not a whole lot unless the battlefield is being overrun by a bunch of Nephilim.Since Selective Snare needs to know the chosen creature type in order to determine which creatures it can target, that choice is made during the casting of the spell and becomes part of the spell's copiable characteristics. This means that Selective Snare is locked into only targeting Nephilim and thus Ink-Treader Nephilim's trigger will only create copies of Selective Snare for any other Nephilim that happen to be on the battlefield at the time.

[magicjudge]

If I cast Selective Snare and choose a soldier token, then copy it by League Guildmage second ability, can I choose a bird token as new target? Or I have to choose another creature which has soldier type?

You’ll have to choose another Soldier.

While you normally make decisions such as choosing a creature type when a spell resolves, that’s not the case for Selective Snare. Selective Snare requires the type to be chosen in order to choose targets, so the choice is made immediately before you choose your targets when you cast it. Since the copy made by League Guildmage isn’t being cast, you don’t get to choose a different type for it and are locked into targeting more creatures of the same type.