Benevolent Bodyguard and Lightning Bolt

[Slay]

If I'm going off with Flash Hulk, and I have Bodyguard, Kiki, Karmic Guide, and Carrion Feeder in play, and I target the Karmic Guide with Kiki, and in response the Karmic Guide is Bolted, if I sac Bodyguard to give Kiki pro-red does the Kiki ability also fail?
-Slay

[URABAHN]

If I'm going off with Flash Hulk, and I have Bodyguard, Kiki, Karmic Guide, and Carrion Feeder in play, and I target the Karmic Guide with Kiki, and in response the Karmic Guide is Bolted, if I sac Bodyguard to give Kiki pro-red does the Kiki ability also fail?
-Slay

The target for Kiki-Jiki's ability will no longer be legal when it resolves. So, yes.

[Lego]

Yeah, I was wrong about this one. And I think you mean you give Karmic Guide pro-red with Benevolent Bodyguard. Here's the relevant rule:

413.2a If the spell or ability specifies targets, it checks whether the targets are still legal. A target that’s moved out of the zone it was in when it was targeted is illegal. Other changes to the game state may cause a target to no longer be legal; for example, its characteristics may have changed or an effect may have changed the text of the spell. If the source of an ability has left the zone it was in, its last known information is used during this process to determine its characteristics. 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.

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. Plague Spores isn’t countered because the black creature land is still a legal target for the “target land” part of the spell.

Red Thresh isn't lookin' so bad, huh? :wink: :wink: