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A player, 10 January 2012
Ryoshun's Guidence (Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your cards, discard this card: Choose another of your non-Stronghold cards at the same location. The action targets it instead, if legal.) A Stain Cleansed (Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate, target an enemy card without attachments or an enemy unit, and pay Gold equal to the card or unit's total Gold Cost minus 2: Destroy it. )
My question is when a card may target diffrent types of cards, cards without attachments or unit for example, is it allowable to change from one target sub-type to another?
Example: A player nominates a unit to target with A Stain Cleansed. With Ryoshun's Guidence is it legal to change the target to an enemy card without attachments, or would the target have to be another unit?
Alex Jones (rules official), 12 January 2012
Ryoshun's Guidence (Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your cards, discard this card: Choose another of your non-Stronghold cards at the same location. The action targets it instead, if legal.) A Stain Cleansed (Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate, target an enemy card without attachments or an enemy unit, and pay Gold equal to the card or unit's total Gold Cost minus 2: Destroy it. )
My question is when a card may target diffrent types of cards, cards without attachments or unit for example, is it allowable to change from one target sub-type to another?
Example: A player nominates a unit to target with A Stain Cleansed. With Ryoshun's Guidence is it legal to change the target to an enemy card without attachments, or would the target have to be another unit?
Yes.
The player of A Stain Cleansed is choosing one target. This can be one of two types, but the choice of target type is specified implicitly, by the choice of target - you do not separately choose the target type.
A player, 12 January 2012
Regarding this ruling: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=95651
Is the answer:
A) Yes, it is legal to change the target to an enemy card without attachments.
or
B) Yes, the target would have to be another unit.
Given the phrasing of the question, it's not immediately clear which possible answer "Yes" is referring to, and I can't pick the meaning out of the explanation provided.
Alex Jones (rules official), 12 January 2012
Regarding this ruling: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=95651
Is the answer:
A) Yes, it is legal to change the target to an enemy card without attachments.
or
B) Yes, the target would have to be another unit.
Given the phrasing of the question, it's not immediately clear which possible answer "Yes" is referring to, and I can't pick the meaning out of the explanation provided.
I was answering the main question.
Even if the card chosen with Ryoshun's Guidance's action meets the targeting requirements of A Stain Cleansed in a different way to the initial target, that is still a legal target, and the Ryoshun's Guidance changes the target.