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A player, 17 April 2009
Hi. This is the scenerio: Defend with Nomen and Sozen. My oponent play Dissension to bow to Sozen and destroy to Nomen. Can i play misdirection to bow to Nomen and "destroy" to Sozen?
Dissension Battle: Target two or more enemy Personalities, each with a Clan alignment none of the others has. Destroy one of them. Bow the others.
Misdirection Political Gozoku Reaction: Before another player would choose targets for one of his action’s effects during a battle, target one of your Courtier or Gozoku Personalities: You choose the targets instead.
Thxs
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 17 April 2009
Hi. This is the scenerio: Defend with Nomen and Sozen. My oponent play Dissension to bow to Sozen and destroy to Nomen. Can i play misdirection to bow to Nomen and "destroy" to Sozen?
No.
Misdirection only allows you to choose the targets. If there's a choice of different effects to be applied to any of those targets (as it is with Dissension), that still falls to the action's taker to decide.