The ‘goal’ of Marina’s means is a room, not a door. With Return the Favor your opponent can select a distinct room by means of its second means, however by no means the precise door or whether or not you lock or unlock it.
They mentioned that the flexibility targets a door of a Room, the place every door is a separate entity so-to-speak
That’s not right. Return the Favor requires a goal. Solely objects and gamers may be targets.
115.1. Some spells and skills require their controller to decide on a number of targets for them. The targets are object(s) and/or participant(s) the spell or means will have an effect on. These targets are declared as a part of the method of placing the spell or means on the stack. The targets can’t be modified besides by one other spell or means that explicitly says it could possibly achieve this.
109.1. An object is a capability on the stack, a card, a replica of a card, a token, a spell, a everlasting, or an emblem.
A Room is an object. It has two halves since it is a break up card, however you’ll be able to’t goal these halves individually; the halves aren’t objects in themselves. Solely all the room everlasting that accommodates them is an object. Even when doorways have been objects, Marina’s means nonetheless solely targets rooms, so her means must say explicitely that it could possibly goal doorways.
The one selection you make as you activate Marina’s means is which room to focus on. That can be the one selection your opponent can change by means of Return the Favor’s second mode.
- Casting Spells
601.2c The participant publicizes their selection of an applicable object or participant for every goal the spell requires. [..] [Process is the same for abilities]
Moreover, with the second mode, your opponent has to decide a distinct room, if potential.
115.7a If an impact permits a participant to “change the goal(s)” of a spell or means, every goal may be modified solely to a different authorized goal. If a goal can’t be modified to a different authorized goal, the unique goal is unchanged, even when the unique goal is itself unlawful by then. If all of the targets aren’t modified to different authorized targets, none of them are modified.
When the flexibility resolves, you because the controller of the flexibility make the selection of door and whether or not to lock or unlock it. That’s merely a part of the flexibility’s set of directions. You might be additionally allowed to decide on “lock” on an already locked door, or “unlock” on an unlocked door, in the event you so want. The power would them merely do nothing.
609.3. If an impact makes an attempt to do one thing unimaginable, it does solely as a lot as potential.
Your opponent might additionally selected the primary half of Return the Favor, thereby copying your means. That would go away your copy unaffected, and your opponent’s copy would resolve first. In case your opponent unlocks the door you needed to unlock anyway, you do not have to revert that selection. You’ll be able to simply select to unlock it once more, and it could keep unlocked. You can additionally select to flip the opposite door in the event you so want. Once more, you make that call solely as your means resolves, with full information of what occurred earlier than.
