Swerve on Thought Hemorrhage

JSUOversoul · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 91

Ok, let's say my opponent plays a Thought Hemorrhage, and I respond with a Swerve. I will now target my opponent with the T.H., but who now has the ability to name what card it will search for? Me or my opponent? Thanks.

Raybelfast · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 45

although swerve redirects to your opponent he/she will still name which card that the effect will search for as that is not chosen untill t.h is resolving.

presumably he/she will name a card that is not in his deck. but as part of t.h's effect he must reveal his hand to you.

making swerve a psuedo counterspell in this instance.

hope this helps

weehood · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 76

are you sure they have to reveal their hand? it says "search that player's hand/grave/library" but doesn't your opponent still control the spell, therefore they are the ones searching their own hand?

and given that, since searching for something doesn't mean you have to find it, couldn't they ignore any copies they do have?

to me it seems like it would be more like: counter hemorrhage, controller shuffles his/her library.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 1118

it says on the card that player reveals the hand

PenguinSlave · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 48

ok while this thread is open,opponent casts negate on your lets say blightning can you play swerve on the negate,changing it to negate now counters swerve?

SaTiVa · Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 257

u can't make the negate target it self because spells can't target them selves but u can make the negate trgt the swerve ... then when the negate tries to resolve it would be countered on resolution because by this time the swerve has left the stack(the target for negate) and the blightning would resolve barning no other business.

weehood · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 76