It's about a spoiled card, but the question itself is about templating, so I think it's alright.
choose target artifact or enchantment, it's controller shuffles it into their library
So it says "choose a target, blah blah" instead of "target blah blah"
Is the target chosen when you announce? It seems strange the way it's worded, so is it just the way things are templated when the target is acted upon by something else or do you actually choose the target as part of the resolution?
If it's the template, could you show me some others that are worded that way, for referance?
Is the target chosen when you announce? It seems strange the way it's worded, so is it just the way things are templated when the target is acted upon by something else or do you actually choose the target as part of the resolution?
It's still a required choose that would be made when playing the spell or ability. Like the examples below, you need to announce a legal target during the steps you take in 409.1.
If it's the template, could you show me some others that are worded that way, for referance?
Contested Cliffs, Erratic Explosion, Erratic Mutation, and Extirpate also use "choose target". It's not very common, but it has no significance on the process for playing the spell or ability versus resolving the spell or ability. The target is still chosen as you play the spell or ability.
It's still a required choose that would be made when playing the spell or ability. Like the examples below, you need to announce a legal target during the steps you take in 409.1.
Contested Cliffs, Erratic Explosion, Erratic Mutation, and Extirpate also use "choose target". It's not very common, but it has no significance on the process for playing the spell or ability versus resolving the spell or ability. The target is still chosen as you play the spell or ability.
Most cards use a shortcut to define their targeting requirements. The use the phrase "target <description>" as though it was a single word. A noun that is the subject of a sentence or object of a phrase.
This is a perfectly acceptable thing to do in English, but it can get difficult to read if the description is long. You can confuse modifiers that apply to the effect with modifiers that apply to the targeting requirements. When this happens, a "dummy" sentence is used: "Choose target <description>. Do <complex effect> to <that target>."
Here's what Extripate would say if this wasn't done:
Search the graveyard, hand, and library of the owner of target card other than a basic land in a graveyard for all cards with the same name as the targeted card, and remove the found card from the game. Then that player shuffles his or her library.
Notice that I not only had to rearrange it, I had to take out the references to "that card" and "those cards," since they could be mistaken.
I also thought that that looked like a sort of odd wording, but the alternative would end up something like: The owner of target artifact or enchantment shuffles it into his or her library.
Either way's a bit ugly. I think the real wording is best though, with the thing being targeted right up front.
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So it says "choose a target, blah blah" instead of "target blah blah"
Is the target chosen when you announce? It seems strange the way it's worded, so is it just the way things are templated when the target is acted upon by something else or do you actually choose the target as part of the resolution?
If it's the template, could you show me some others that are worded that way, for referance?
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It's still a required choose that would be made when playing the spell or ability. Like the examples below, you need to announce a legal target during the steps you take in 409.1.
Contested Cliffs, Erratic Explosion, Erratic Mutation, and Extirpate also use "choose target". It's not very common, but it has no significance on the process for playing the spell or ability versus resolving the spell or ability. The target is still chosen as you play the spell or ability.
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This is a perfectly acceptable thing to do in English, but it can get difficult to read if the description is long. You can confuse modifiers that apply to the effect with modifiers that apply to the targeting requirements. When this happens, a "dummy" sentence is used: "Choose target <description>. Do <complex effect> to <that target>."
Here's what Extripate would say if this wasn't done: Notice that I not only had to rearrange it, I had to take out the references to "that card" and "those cards," since they could be mistaken.
Either way's a bit ugly. I think the real wording is best though, with the thing being targeted right up front.
"Sufficiently advanced experience is indistinguishable from clairvoyance." -Carsten
"Ah those eyes, those horrible creepy eyes!" -Chaosof99
DCI Level 3 Judge & TO
"I do not consider myself a hero. I know only what the Vec teach:
justice must always be served and corruption must always be opposed."
Go read! I am one of the three authors of Cranial Insertion.
But seriously, if you can't remember "Woapalanne", just call me Eli.