1. Cast Vadrok for URR mutate cost to put under a Ripjaw Raptor. Opponent in response kills raptor with cast down. Does Vadrok still enter the battlefield, but mutate effect won't happen?
2. Can I mutate Vadrok on top of a Shifting Ceratops? Would the protection from blue of the ceratops stop the mutate or not?
1. When Vadrok (or any other mutating creature spell) resolves, if its target is illegal, it will still enter the battlefield as an ordinary permanent.
2. Vadrok can't target Shifting Ceratops. Shifting Ceratops has protection from blue, so among other things, it can't be a target of blue spells such as Vadrok. (However, Vadrok could still merge with Shifting Ceratops by other means, since protection abilities don't specifically stop objects from merging with others, but at the time of this writing, the only way an object can merge with another is via the mutate keyword ability.)
1. Cast Vadrok for URR mutate cost to put under a Ripjaw Raptor. Opponent in response kills raptor with cast down. Does Vadrok still enter the battlefield, but mutate effect won't happen?
2. Can I mutate Vadrok on top of a Shifting Ceratops? Would the protection from blue of the ceratops stop the mutate or not?
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2. Vadrok can't target Shifting Ceratops. Shifting Ceratops has protection from blue, so among other things, it can't be a target of blue spells such as Vadrok. (However, Vadrok could still merge with Shifting Ceratops by other means, since protection abilities don't specifically stop objects from merging with others, but at the time of this writing, the only way an object can merge with another is via the mutate keyword ability.)
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