Fizzle

The term "fizzle" is an informal term, used for when a spell or ability fails to resolve as a result of all its targets being missing or illegal when it resolved.

History
Before the Sixth Edition rules update, this was an official game term, but it has since become slang. Prior to the release of Dominaria, the rules said that a spell was "countered on resolution" if it had no legal targets at the time it would resolve, but under current rules the spell simply "doesn't resolve".

R&D considers the rule that spells with a target that do other things and don't have those other things happen if the target gets removed to be very unintuitive. It, however, has proven to be a tricky issue to solve.

Rules
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