Heartless Act
From Avatar: The Last Airbender set
Heartless Act
Instant
Choose one —
- Destroy target creature with no counters on it.
- Remove up to three counters from target creature.
Rulings
- If you choose the second mode for Heartless Act, you choose which counters to remove from the creature, no matter who controls the creature. You may choose counters of different kinds.
- If you choose the first mode and the creature gains a counter in response, you can’t remove counters from it instead; the spell just doesn’t resolve. Similarly, if you choose the second mode and the creature loses its counters in response, you can’t destroy it instead.
