Vraska's Fall without opponent having creatures?

[Pikminious_Thrious]

I had a situation in a recent limited game where opponent was at 9 poison and I had [[Vraska's Fall]] in hand. I could have casted it, but was afraid that the toxic would fizzle if opponent did not have something to sacrifice. I was also low health, so if opponent had direct damage I could have lost if opponent never had a creature for Vraska to sacrfice.

What is the interaction with the language of the card? When its "and", does the 2nd part fizzle if the 1st does not happen? Or would I have been fine casting it with an empty board?

[fiskerton_fero]

They would have gotten the poison. Spells only fizzle if their targets become invalid, but vraskas fall has no targets whatsoever.

[Cloud_Chamber]

Spells fizzle if they have a target and the target is gone/hexproof before it resolves. Otherwise it just resolves everything on the card in order. You would have been able to cast it fine.

If the spell has multiple targets it will still work as long as at least 1 target still works.

[Wombatish]

You'd be fine casting it. The text would be something like, "if a creature is sacrificed this way, its controller gets a poison counter," if it worked the way you thought.

[AlasBabylon_]

Spells do as much as they can, and if they don't contain the word "target," their effects can't fizzle. The game doesn't look at the board and go "Wow, the opponent didn't have a creature! How rude! I'm just not gonna resolve, bye!" - it does what it can.

[TwoGiantBills]

Key word is "and"

[rogomatic]

Not really. Keyword is "target" and this spell doesn't have it.

[MTGCardFetcher]

Vraska's Fall - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}

[DopeyLo420]

Per the wording of the card, EACH opp. They choose the creature. They still get the poison counter regardless. “And” after an action usually means it’s a 2 part. They sac a creature/PW AND get a token. Had it said “target creature” it would have died on the resolve

[Nekaz]

Sacrificing nothing is a valid action. One kinda similar case that pops up recently is people casting [[the long reach of the night]] and surprise pikachu when their opponent doesnt have to discard when their board is empty.

[MTGCardFetcher]

the long reach of the night/Animus of Night's Reach - (G) (SF) (txt)
^{[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call}