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Electrostatic Bolt as a Counterspell

I was playing with a friend and I case Ondu Cleric (http://magiccards.info/zen/en/30.html).
Then he responds it with Electrostatic Bolt (http://magiccards.info/mi/en/89.html) and kills it.
Then he claims he killed the cleric before it entered the battlefield as a response, so I didn't get the life and that you can do that with damage instants.

This kinda wages war against my rule knowledge. Isn't creature still a spell, before it enters the battlefield? But he claimed hard that he had a similar thing happen to him at a tournament x.x

I'm kinda confused here and hope someone can englighten me. Is such a thing possible? Can you kill a creature before it enters the battlefield like that?
Posted 25 February 2011 at 18:30

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nope, you were right.

the only way he can target it as a creature is after it's entered the battlefield.
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Posted 25 February 2011 at 18:53

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That's what I tried to tell him, but he kept going with such certainity that I started to doubt myself o.o
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Posted 25 February 2011 at 23:24

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[QUOTE=Juah]That's what I tried to tell him, but he kept going with such certainity that I started to doubt myself o.o[/QUOTE]

Yeah, he's wrong. But hey, now you know, right?
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Posted 26 February 2011 at 01:08

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Yeah, now I'm sure, since everyone else I've asked have said that he was wrong. Thanks both of you ^^
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Posted 26 February 2011 at 14:48

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