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Awesome thanks. He is very insistent on being right about magic rulings even though they are sometimes highly questionable. I was going by the same logic you all have posted but just wanted some feedback. In the end he let it fizzle and I won the match because of it. I don't suppose you could point me to any specific rules I could lay out for him that prove what we think is correct beyond a shadow of a doubt?

You could use the card.
It says "target creature" therefor if he tried to play a spell on a creature with hexproof, it would fail.

So he was just being stubborn and it's pretty obvious. I'm happy I didn't let him bully me just because I'm new to the game.

Awesome thanks. He is very insistent on being right about magic rulings even though they are sometimes highly questionable. I was going by the same logic you all have posted but just wanted some feedback. In the end he let it fizzle and I won the match because of it. I don't suppose you could point me to any specific rules I could lay out for him that prove what we think is correct beyond a shadow of a doubt?

If I have a creature with hexproof on the board can he be combusted? My friend tried to combust my Aven Fleetwing and I argued that even though the specific definition of counter is preventing a spell from resolving, I never prevented his spell from resolving as he never had a legal target to begin with and so it could never have been played in the first place. Talk amongst yourselves!