The goal of Marina’s skill is a room, not a door. With Return the Favor your opponent can select a special room by means of its second skill, however it’s all the time you who chooses the door to lock/unlock.
They stated that the power targets a door of a Room, the place every door is a separate entity so-to-speak
That’s not appropriate. 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 skill will have an effect on. These targets are declared as a part of the method of placing the spell or skill on the stack. The targets can’t be modified besides by one other spell or skill that explicitly says it could possibly accomplish that.
109.1. An object is a capability on the stack, a card, a duplicate 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 cut up card, however you may’t goal these halves individually; the halves will not be objects in themselves. Solely all the room everlasting that incorporates them is an object. Even when doorways had been objects, Marina’s skill nonetheless solely targets rooms; her skill must say explicitely that it could possibly goal doorways.
The one selection you make as you activate Marina’s skill 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 choose a completely different room, if potential.
115.7a If an impact permits a participant to “change the goal(s)” of a spell or skill, 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 power resolves, you because the controller of the power select which door to lock/unlock. That’s merely a part of the power’s set of directions. Your pal is appropriate in that the door you select will change its lock state.
Your opponent may additionally selected the primary half of Return the Favor, thereby copying your skill. 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 choose the identical door. You possibly can simply select the opposite door, and your most popular door would keep unlocked. Once more, you make that call solely as your skill resolves, with full data of what occurred earlier than.
