#spellskite

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Spellskite

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[magicjudge]

If I have Parnesse in play and Spellskite in play, if opponent tried to play a target removal spell on parnesse and I use Spellskite to trigger the change of target to Spellskite, will Parnesse 1st ability trigger twice, once for each new target?

When your opponent casts the spell, Parnesse will trigger. When Spellskite's ability resolves and changes the target of the spell, Parnesse will trigger again. (Activating Spellskite additional times won't cause any additional triggers.) So you get two triggers total from this interaction.

From a strategic perspective, the correct play here is to let the first trigger resolve before you activate Spellskite. This way you can save a mana (or 2 life) if your opponent doesn't pay life.

And yes, having two Spellskites to bounce the spell back and forth could create an arbitrary number of triggers, though there's not much point in doing that.

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[magicjudge]

I'm curious how spellskite and protection work with each other, specifically with giver of runes. Can I redirect a spell to spellskite and then give it protection from the color of that spell and have it be unaffected? If that doesn't work to counteract the spell, is there an order of operations that does?

That works correctly. 

You need to change the target first and then grant protection to Spellskite. This will cause the spell to not affect Spellskite (and to have no effect if it has no other targets).

Giving Spellskite protection before you try to change the target won’t work because the target won’t be able to change to Spellskite as it would be an illegal target.

[magicjudge]

This is something that came up tonight at EDH night. Player A had a Spellskite and some other valuable enchantment. Player B cast Sylvan Reclamation targeting the Spellskite and the other enchantment. Player A activated the Spellskite ability to save their enchantment. What happens when the ability resolves? Can Spellskite make itself a double-target of the Reclamation? We went back and forth on this for awhile, bringing up cards like Kolaghan's Command and Newlamog's trigger.

When Spellskite’s ability resolves, it won’t be able to change any targets of Sylvan Reclamation to itself because it’s already a target of that spell. Sylvan Reclamation can only target the same object once because it only uses the word target once.

Kolaghan’s command is a different case since the different modes each use the word target and so Spellskite can be targeted by both the damage and artifact destruction modes of that spell. Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger’s trigger works the same as Sylvan Reclamation and can only target Spellskite once.

[magicjudge]

Spellskite can't steal auras, can it? I guess my actually question is when does an aura target something, and when does it just enter the battlefield attached to something?

It can!

Auras are the only permanent spells that have targets, but they only target anything when they’re on the stack. Once they resolve and enter the battlefield, they no longer target the permanent they’re enchanting.

So yes, you can change the target of an aura spell on the stack so that it targets Spellskite, but its target will only change to Spellskite if it can legally enchant it. So cards with “enchant creature” or “enchant artifact” are fine, but be wary of cards with “enchant creature you control” or “enchant tapped creature” or the like.