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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2341197" data-attributes="member: 19675">You're missing my point: if an image can't trigger an AoO- in other words cannot be a target of an AoO- then why should an image cause an AoO on the actual mage to miss?The chance to miss that is the core of MI is based on the assumption that the attacker has made a mistake in which visible caster is real and which is image, causing the attacker to hit the wrong one.  If an image can't trigger an AoO (if it cannot be hit by an AoO as a primary target), then it also shouldn't be able to be hit by an AoO by mistake (hit by an AoO as a mistaken primary target).Either images trigger AoO's or they can't.If it can, then the AoO can be triggered by the MI image and the actual mage can be missed when the attacker mistakes an image for the actual mage.If it cannot, the only AoO will be on the mage who can't be missed (because of MI, at least) since the attacker is obviously not confusing the images for the mage.</blockquote>