Phantasmal image/comet stellar pup bug
my opponent in a powered cube match copied my Worldspine Worm with his Phantasmal image. I rolled a 5 with comet stellar pup on my turn, targeting my opponent's worm. It applied 5 damage, but the Image'd Worm should have been sacrificed, it was not. This led to me losing the match as my opponent now still had a worm instead of just the tokens.
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Rezzahan#77802
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Comet does NOT target. It makes the controller CHOOSE a creature to deal damage to, ON RESOLUTION. Targets are chosen when a spell or ability is put on the stack, so that all players know what is intended to be affected by it. Targeted spells and abilities ALWAYS have to use the word "target", if it isn't there, then there's no targeting involved. And since the Image was not targeted, its sacrifice trigger did not go off.