Ivy's copied mutation redirects when Ivy is removed
Playing a mutate deck, had Zagoth Mamba and Ivy, Gleeful Spellthief on the field.
Cast Insatiable Hemophage for its Mutate cost, targeting Zagoth Mamba.
Ivy copies the spell, targeting herself.
Opponent sacrifices their Shambling Ghast to destroy Ivy before the copied spell can resolve.
I expected the copied Insatiable Hemophage to either enter as a token, or fizzle. Instead, it redirected to my Zagoth Mamba, so the snake ended up mutating twice - once from the original and once from the copied spell.
No idea why losing Ivy caused the spell she copied to redirect back to the target of the original spell, I don't think I've seen that happen before.
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HenBagle#74167 commented
This has happened to me as well with Questing Beast and Ivy. I cast Glowstone Recluse and the copy was redirected onto Questing Beast instead of fizzling. (as Ivy is not a legal target for the copy)
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Onymbit#28551 commented
The exact same thing happened to me today with sanctum weaver and ivy where I cast migratory greathorn on the sanctum weaver, trigger ivy. My opponent removes ivy, I copy the spell from the trigger and it redirects to sanctum weaver. I get two mutates on sanctum. From what I read in the rules, it should create a token version of mutate card.