Spider Food can target Freya Crescent on opponent’s turn (no flying)
Spider Food can target Freya Crescent on opponent’s turn (no flying)
I ran into what looks like a rules bug involving Spider Food and Freya Crescent in MTG Arena.
According to the card texts:
• Freya Crescent: “Jump — During your turn, Freya Crescent has flying.”
• Spider Food: “Destroy up to one target artifact, enchantment, or creature with flying. Create a Food token.”
Freya should only have flying during my turn. On my opponent’s turn, she should not have flying, so she shouldn’t be a legal target for Spider Food.
However, in my game Arena allowed the following:
• It was my opponent’s turn (I controlled Freya Crescent).
• My opponent cast Spider Food on their turn.
• Arena allowed them to target my Freya Crescent with Spider Food.
• The spell resolved and destroyed Freya, even though it was not my turn and she should not have had flying.
From my understanding of the rules, Freya was an illegal target at that time, since its “Jump” ability only grants flying on my turn.
Environment details:
• Platform: macOS
• Game mode: Standard Brawl
• Approximate date/time: 2025-12-19 ~3:45 AM ET
I didn't have detailed logging enabled at the time so I don't have a player.log file for this bug.
Thanks!
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Rezzahan#77802
commented
Did your opponent also have Ygra, Eater of All on the field? If so, your Freya was an artifact and a legal target for Spider Food that way.