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A player, 24 June 2012
In regards to a question and answer already given........
Question by p1u70 :If something targets an attachment, is it considered to be targeting the personality? Therefor negation/delay/transfer might interact with it?
Answer by MacBeth2001: No. If something targets the "unit", specifically using that term, it is also considered to target the Personality. But targeting individual cards in the unit do not implicitly target the Personality. Your attachments are on their own.
My follow up: If something specifically says a personality may not be targeted, does this prevent the unit from being targeted?
Example, a personality has a Legion of Pain attached, so personalities with a gold cost of 7 or less cannot target the personality. Could my duelist, who costs 7 or lower gold, still use Superior Opponent (Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Duelist and target an enemy unit: Bow each Follower and Personality in it with equal or lower Force than your Duelist's Chi.) and target that unit?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 25 June 2012
In regards to a question and answer already given........
Question by p1u70 :If something targets an attachment, is it considered to be targeting the personality? Therefor negation/delay/transfer might interact with it?
Answer by MacBeth2001: No. If something targets the "unit", specifically using that term, it is also considered to target the Personality. But targeting individual cards in the unit do not implicitly target the Personality. Your attachments are on their own.
My follow up: If something specifically says a personality may not be targeted, does this prevent the unit from being targeted?
Example, a personality has a Legion of Pain attached, so personalities with a gold cost of 7 or less cannot target the personality. Could my duelist, who costs 7 or lower gold, still use Superior Opponent (Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Duelist and target an enemy unit: Bow each Follower and Personality in it with equal or lower Force than your Duelist's Chi.) and target that unit?
No, such a unit could not legally be targeted, per the ruling you quoted, referencing paragraph #5, here.
However, it would be helpful if you could imbed a link to previous rulings when referring to them (as requested here, under bullet point #3).