<p>Since the triggered ability does not target, it will resolve and use last known information about the copied spell. See for example the ruling on <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mirari">Mirari</a>.</p>

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tengfred
<p>If <a class="mtg-autocard" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" href="https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wandering%20Archaic">Wandering Archaic</a> is in play, a spell is played and countered while the Wandering Archaic's ability is still on the stack, what happens when the Wandering Arachic trigger resolves? Does it fizzle or does it create a copy despite the original spell being countered?</p>

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This question is a duplicate of [Ulalek copying countered spell](https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/61195/ulalek-copying-countered-spell). Normally I would vote to close the newer question as a duplicate of the older one, but in this case the newer question has answers with rules quotes (which I prefer). The answer on this one is more succinct though. I don't know which is better.
Rainbolt
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@Rainbolt What do you think about creating a more generic question dealing with triggers that reference spells that are then countered? We can self-answer or even Community Wiki that question and make both this question and the Ulalek question duplicates of that one.
ryanyuyu
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@ryanyuyu You can if you want. I would rather improve an existing question before creating yet another duplicate. [I posted about this on meta.](https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1176/6692) The reason I didn't edit the title of these two questions (yet) is because it would be suspicious for me to vote to close two questions with identical names as duplicates right after I edited their names to be identical.
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Does Wandering Archaic trigger if the spell is countered?
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# Does Wandering Archaic trigger if the spell is countered?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-06-01)

If [Wandering Archaic](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Wandering%20Archaic) is in play, a spell is played and countered while the Wandering Archaic's ability is still on the stack, what happens when the Wandering Arachic trigger resolves? Does it fizzle or does it create a copy despite the original spell being countered?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This question is a duplicate of [Ulalek copying countered spell](https://boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/61195/ulalek-copying-countered-spell). Normally I would vote to close the newer question as a duplicate of the older one, but in this case the newer question has answers with rules quotes (which I prefer). The answer on this one is more succinct though. I don't know which is better.  
> **username_2**: @username_1 What do you think about creating a more generic question dealing with triggers that reference spells that are then countered? We can self-answer or even Community Wiki that question and make both this question and the Ulalek question duplicates of that one.  
> **username_1**: @username_2 You can if you want. I would rather improve an existing question before creating yet another duplicate. [I posted about this on meta.](https://boardgames.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1176/6692) The reason I didn't edit the title of these two questions (yet) is because it would be suspicious for me to vote to close two questions with identical names as duplicates right after I edited their names to be identical.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2021-06-01. Score: 8 | Accepted answer

Since the triggered ability does not target, it will resolve and use last known information about the copied spell. See for example the ruling on [Mirari](https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mirari).


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