Ertai's Meddling

Ertai's Meddling Rulings

• Apr 15, 2013

  Ertai's Meddling has the spell's controller put the spell back onto the stack; it does not have its controller cast the spell again. Anything that triggers off of casting spells, such as Contemplation , won't trigger. Simillarly, effects that count spells that are cast (like Rule of Law) or prevent spells from being cast (like Iona, Shield of Emeria) won't count or affect the copy that is put onto the stack since the copy wasn't cast.

• Apr 15, 2013

  If Ertai's Meddling is used to copy an arcane spell that had effects spliced onto it, it will create a spell with all of those effects. That spell's controller will not be able to splice additional effects onto the spell, since they did not re-cast the spell and instead simply put it back onto the stack.

• Jan 22, 2011

  If the spell was cast using flashback, Ertai's Meddling will still exile it with delay counters on it. When the card is returned to the stack, it still "remembers" the flashback cost was originally paid. It'll be exiled when it resolves or otherwise leaves the stack.

• Apr 1, 2008

  This now exiles the spell as part of Ertai's Meddling's resolution, instead of waiting for the targeted spell to start resolving.

• Oct 4, 2004

  A targeted spell which is delayed will still succeed even if its target has phased out and back in again.