Zarin <arkadyz1.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all,
> let's say it is my beginning of combat step and my opponent activates
> her Glare of Subdual, tapping a Saproling token and targeting my
> Soltari Priest. If in response I use my Distorting Lens targeting
> Glare and eventually making it red until EOT, is the tap ability
> countered on resolution (due to the Priest's Protection from red)?
>
> I think it WILL be countered, but cannot find the rule supporting this
> point of view...
Perhaps one of these rules is the one you are missing:
413.2a If the spell or ability specifies targets, it checks whether the
targets are still legal. A target that's removed from play, or from the
zone designated by the spell or ability, is illegal. A target may also
become illegal if its characteristics changed since the spell or ability
was played or if an effect changed the text of the spell. The spell or
ability is countered if all its targets, for every instance of the word
"target," are now illegal. If the spell or ability is not countered, it
will resolve normally, affecting only the targets that are still legal.
If a target is illegal, the spell or ability can't perform any actions
on it or make the target perform any actions. If the spell or ability
needs to know information about one or more targets that are now
illegal, it will use the illegal targets' current or last known
information.
Example: Aura Blast is a white instant that reads, "Destroy target
enchantment. Draw a card." If the enchantment isn't a legal target
during Aura Blast's resolution (say, if it has gained protection from
white or left play), then Aura Blast is countered. Its controller
doesn't draw a card.
Example: Plague Spores reads, "Destroy target nonblack creature and
target land. They can't be regenerated." Suppose the same animated land
is chosen both as the nonblack creature and as the land, and the color
of the creature land is changed to black before Plague Spores resolves.
Plagues Spores isn't countered because the black creature land is still
a legal target for the "target land" part of the spell.
502.7b A permanent with protection can't be targeted by spells with the
stated quality and can't be targeted by abilities from a source with the
stated quality.
Source of an Ability
The source of an ability is the object that generated it. See rule 402,
"Abilities," and rule 200.7.
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