"Animate Dead"
Info: Color = Black Type = Enchantment Cost = 1B Edition = 4th Edition (4E)
Errata: When Animate Dead comes into play, if it's in play, it becomes an enchant creature. Put target creature card from a graveyard into play under your control enchanted by Animate Dead. ; Enchanted creature gets -1/-0. ; When Animate Dead leaves play, destroy enchanted creature. It can't be regenerated. [Oracle 2001/08/24]
Enters play as a global enchantment and then becomes an Enchant Creature as a triggered ability (see Rule 404) upon entering play. It follows all the rules for Enchant Creature cards from then on. [WotC Rules Team 1997/03/14] For example, it counts for abilities that interact with creature enchantments, such as Rabid Wombat. [Aahz 1997/06/06]
A "creature card" is a Creature card or Artifact Creature card. [D'Angelo 1999/05/01] Older cards of type Summon are also Creature cards.
You can Animate a creature which was discarded from a hand and therefore was never in play. [D'Angelo 1994/04/01]
The creature comes out as if it were just played. Any X in the mana cost is zero (see Rule G24.1). So animating a Rock Hydra gives you a hydra with zero heads. [Mirage, Page 31]
When putting a card into play that requires a definition for its value, such as with Minion of the Wastes, you do what is needed to define the value. [WotC Rules Team 1998/02/02] In the case of Minion of the Wastes, you pay life to define its values.
The animated creature comes into play with summoning sickness (see Rule G19.27), so it cannot attack until it begins one of its controller's turns in play. [D'Angelo 1998/02/03]
This is a targeted ability. Note that cards in the graveyard do not have Protection from Color abilities (see Rule 402.8), but the comes into play ability may be countered if the target creature card is removed from the graveyard before the spell resolves. If the ability is countered, then this card stays an Enchantment and stays in play. [D'Angelo 2002/12/19]
If the creature phases out (see Rule 502.15) without the Animate Dead because Animate Dead has been affected by Spatial Binding, the Animate Dead is destroyed but the creature is not. The creature will phase in perfectly normal since the Animate Dead ability did not destroy it. [Aahz 1997/02/16]
Note - Also see Comes Into Play Abilities, Rule 410.10a.
Note - Also see Put Into Play, Rule G16.25.
Note - The Limited Edition, Unlimited Edition, Revised Edition, and Fourth Edition versions had this card as an Enchant Dead Creature. [D'Angelo 1997/04/11]
"Misdirection"
Info: Color = Blue Type = Instant Cost = 3UU Edition = Mercadian Masques (MM)
Errata: You may remove a blue card in your hand from the game rather than pay Misdirection's mana cost. ; Change the target of target spell with a single target. [Oracle 2001/06/01]
You choose the spell to target on announcement, but you pick the new target for that spell on resolution. [bethmo 1999/11/30]
If there is no other legal target for the spell, Misdirection does not change the target. [D'Angelo 2000/07/24]
Misdirection does not check if the current target is legal. It just checks if the spell has a single target. [DeLaney 2001/02/15]
This has just come up in the GAT vs Hulk thread here:
http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16610&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15Can an animate spell be misdirected to another creature instead of the dragon?
I think the ruling about it following the rules for an enchant creature card, would mean you have to pick the target creature to enchant.
