If my opponent has a personality that has a trait/effect saying that they cannot move them to a battlefield, can one of my effects move them? Basically, if I harpoon my opponents personality, am I considered to be the player doing the moving or are they?
You will not (x) vs. other players effects
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Possessive case
The possessive case – terms such as “your,” “his” or “a player’s” – is used in a number of different ways.
When referring to the relationship between a player and a card or cards, possessive terms refer to a card in play controlled by the player, or a card out of play owned by the player.
The possessive case referring to a card’s player is the reverse of its use referring to cards. Example: “His player” refers to the card’s owner if it is not in play, or controller if it is.
Attached and attaching cards in a unit refer to each other with the possessive case. Example: A Follower’s Personality is the Personality it is attached to, and a Personality’s Followers are those attached to him.
Possessive case referring to a unit’s cards indicates cards in that unit. Example: “The unit’s Personality” or “the unit’s Followers.”
Possessive case can also refer to a card’s stats, traits, or abilities Example: “His Chi,” “its abilities.”
When referring to actions (as distinct from abilities), the possessive case refers to the player who took the action, regardless of the owner or controller of a card it is on. Example: If a player is able to take an action from an ability on one of your cards, the effects come from that player’s action, but come from your cards and are considered your card effects.
Possessive case relating units, or cards in units, to an army refers to that side on the battlefield, and does not imply that the two cards have to be there together at any one time. Specifically, if an effect looks for things that happened in the past to a card in another card's army, the two cards need not have been present at the battlefield at the same time.
Possessive case is used in a number of other ways than these specialized meanings, which should be interpreted accordingly. Example: “This Province’s battlefield.”
If the information there does not answer your question, please feel free to ask it again, using specific cards in an example.
Hope this helps!
OK this is a slight continuation from viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 . If I play Ambush, am I assigning my opponents personality or is he? Similarly, if I play Defensive Grill or any other harpooning card on my opponents personality, am I considered to be the one moving his personality?
References: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 And viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367
OK this is a slight continuation from viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 . If I play Ambush, am I assigning my opponents personality or is he? Similarly, if I play Defensive Grill or any other harpooning card on my opponents personality, am I considered to be the one moving his personality?
References: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 And viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367
When an action says, "Assign the target", the player taking the action is the one doing the assigning.
On: Defensive Grill