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A player, 31 July 2013
I looked at viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99986 but couldn't really apply it to my specific case.
My opponent has Ryoshun's Guidance, Shiba and TWO 0-cost followers in play. I play Claw and Shell, first and foremost to kill Shiba (and if possible one of the followers).
Is he able to use Ryoshun's to save Shiba or not?
What I'm thinking -> since C&S targeting isn't mandatory, it will happen in the action's resolution (does this have relevance to the case?). So I pick Shiba as the first target. My opponent reacts with Guidance, changing the target to one of the followers. I then pick Shiba as the second target.
Also, and as a sanity check, if my opponent only had Guidance, Shiba and a single 0-cost follower in play he could never save Shiba, right? I choose to target both, so the Guidance's redirection from Shiba has no remaining legal targets...
Jon Palmer (rules official), 31 July 2013
I looked at viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99986 but couldn't really apply it to my specific case.
My opponent has Ryoshun's Guidance, Shiba and TWO 0-cost followers in play. I play Claw and Shell, first and foremost to kill Shiba (and if possible one of the followers).
Is he able to use Ryoshun's to save Shiba or not?
What I'm thinking -> since C&S targeting isn't mandatory, it will happen in the action's resolution (does this have relevance to the case?). So I pick Shiba as the first target. My opponent reacts with Guidance, changing the target to one of the followers. I then pick Shiba as the second target.
Also, and as a sanity check, if my opponent only had Guidance, Shiba and a single 0-cost follower in play he could never save Shiba, right? I choose to target both, so the Guidance's redirection from Shiba has no remaining legal targets...
Your targeting is simultaneous, not sequential. At the targeting step, you would choose Shiba and one follower. Your opponent could then redirect from Shiba to the other follower. While there's a separate reaction window to each target, they're still chosen at the same time.
If it's just Shiba and one follower, Ryoshun's will not save them.