Spellskite
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Judge Gift Cards 2017J17 · #7
- Card type
- Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- ★ 32.63 € · ★ 57.80 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Power
- 0
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. ( can be paid with either or 2 life.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Svetlin Velinov
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2017-01-01
Flavour text
"Let's show Vorinclex that progress doesn't always need teeth or claws." —Malcator, Executor of Synthesis
Rulings
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.
If a spell or ability has a variable number of targets, you can't change the number of targets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
