Black Sun's Twilight
Had a bug just now with Black Sun Twilight. I payed 6 mana, targeted a toughness 3 creature, the instant-ability to move a creature from my graveyard to the battlefield did not trigger. Lost me the game...
Like you can see on the picture, two Meteor Golem's where discarded into my graveyard. They are both still in my graveyard after playing Black Sun.
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routergnome#42116 commented
I had a similar issue with this card, where I paid X=5, targeted one of the opponent's creatures, and the opponent made the target hexproof. The card states, "up to one target creature". Is the implication that if I didn't target the creature the spell would have worked? Expected behavior is for the effect to trigger even if my target becomes invalid. I had Rusko, Clockmaker in my graveyard, which has a mana value 4, but the spell did not work.
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[Deleted User] commented
Mana value X or less is the key here. Meteor Golem has a MV of 7. You've cast BST for only X=5. So there was no legal target for the second part of the spell. To get a Golem back, X has to be 7 or higher. Also note, that you choose the creature card to return as part of casting the spell, it is not a seperate trigger. One counterspell stops it all.