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A player, 14 June 2014
RE: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic. ... d#p1427087
My opponent plays an action and I react with Final Sacrifice http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=2550,#hashid=e96ed35f5a96d8b2eeb6eac5f435a324,#cardcount=2
Interrupt: Target your Yojimbo.
I target all of my Yojimbo, yes? Yojimbo is plural, afterall. Since all of my Yojimbo is generally not a legal target the action does nothing? Or does the following completely seperate sentence on the card act as a qualifier to ensure it's singular? Will there be a definition on every single card that says "Target your Yojimbo" or some varient of such to confirm whether it means one Yojimbo or all your Yojimbo? I just want the team to be very aware of the precedence this ruling sets for any future wording that mentions Yojimbo.
EDIT: Followup:
With the following cards (as examples), do I target all of my Samurai, or just one? Explain why in either case.
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8,#hashid=80bfc2b1ca900f1cfbfb21005d677cdb,#cardcount=0
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=9156,#hashid=80bfc2b1ca900f1cfbfb21005d677cdb,#cardcount=8
Ben Higgins (rules official), 26 June 2014
RE: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic. ... d#p1427087
My opponent plays an action and I react with Final Sacrifice http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=2550,#hashid=e96ed35f5a96d8b2eeb6eac5f435a324,#cardcount=2
Interrupt: Target your Yojimbo.
I target all of my Yojimbo, yes? Yojimbo is plural, afterall. Since all of my Yojimbo is generally not a legal target the action does nothing? Or does the following completely seperate sentence on the card act as a qualifier to ensure it's singular? Will there be a definition on every single card that says "Target your Yojimbo" or some varient of such to confirm whether it means one Yojimbo or all your Yojimbo? I just want the team to be very aware of the precedence this ruling sets for any future wording that mentions Yojimbo.
EDIT: Followup:
With the following cards (as examples), do I target all of my Samurai, or just one? Explain why in either case.
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8,#hashid=80bfc2b1ca900f1cfbfb21005d677cdb,#cardcount=0
http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=9156,#hashid=80bfc2b1ca900f1cfbfb21005d677cdb,#cardcount=8
Targeting is by default, a singular thing.
When a single effect would have you target two or more objects, we explicitly state the number, or the range of number, of targets you must choose.
Examples of cards with multiple targets are A Growing Rift, Band of Brothers, and Bountiful Fields.