Spellskite and Stifle

[TkDodo]

My opponent plays Stifle on an activated ability that I would like to resolve (say, a Fetchland). I have Spellskite on the battlefield.

Would the redirection work if I activate Spellskite’s ability twice?

Let’s say I activate it once to make Stifle target Spellskite. This would do nothing when it resolves, but it can still be activated. See Oracle rules for Spellskite:


6/1/2011: You can activate Spellskite's ability even if Spellskite wouldn't be a legal target for the spell or ability. However, the target of that spell or ability will remain unchanged.


Now that I have a valid Stifle target (Spellskite’s ability on the stack), I should be able to activate Spellskite’s ability again, making Stifle target the first Spellskite activision.

Does that work? Thanks for clarification

[Malchar]

It doesn't quite work.


Change a target of target spell or ability to Spellskite.

You can activate spellskite the first time as you say. However, putting this activated ability on the stack won't help you because spellskite only lets you redirect things to itself. You can't redirect the stifle to spellskite's activated ability.

[TkDodo]

You can't redirect the stifle to spellskite's activated ability.

Yup, my bad. Sorry that I wasted your time ;)