Emrakul, the World Anew protection ruling on copied spells

Asked by builderboy7 2 days ago

If I control Emrakul, the World Anew and a Storm Crow on board, if my opponent casts Path to Exile targeting my copy of Storm Crow and hold priority and copies Path to Exile with Reverberate, could the Reverberate'd copy of Path to Exile then target Emrakul, the World Anew?

Rhadamanthus says... #1

Unfortunately no, that won't work. A copy of a spell is still a spell, so Emrakul's "protection from spells" ability means it can't be targeted by a copy of a spell.

To be clear, in case this is part of the question: Emrakul's protection ability that says "protection from spells and from permanents that were cast this turn" is a short way of writing "protection from spells and protection from permanents that were cast this turn". It doesn't mean "protection from spells that were cast this turn and protection from permanents that were cast this turn". If Emrakul only had protection from spells that were cast this turn, specifically, then this would work because Reverberate doesn't cast the copy of the spell, it just creates it directly on the stack.

March 10, 2025 9:11 a.m.