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A player, 17 March 2005
Relevant card text
Suitengu´s Surge
Reaction: Before an action targets a unit you control, bow this Shugenja: Remove the unit from the game. Return it to the game, with all attached cards and tokens, before the beginning of the next turn.
Price of Power
This card remains in play in your home. Limited: Discard this card: Target a unit you control and a unit with equal or lower total Gold cost controlled by another player. Destroy them.
So my friend targets his unit, and then targets my unit, he then destroys the units with price of power, then he proceeds to use suitengu's surge to save his unit.
My question is since, Suitengu's surge is used before targeting, doesn´t he need to target another unit, since the one that he originally wanted to target is not more in the game?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 17 March 2005
Relevant card text
Suitengu´s Surge
Reaction: Before an action targets a unit you control, bow this Shugenja: Remove the unit from the game. Return it to the game, with all attached cards and tokens, before the beginning of the next turn.
Price of Power
This card remains in play in your home. Limited: Discard this card: Target a unit you control and a unit with equal or lower total Gold cost controlled by another player. Destroy them.
So my friend targets his unit, and then targets my unit, he then destroys the units with price of power, then he proceeds to use suitengu's surge to save his unit.
My question is since, Suitengu's surge is used before targeting, doesn´t he need to target another unit, since the one that he originally wanted to target is not more in the game?
See posts here, here.