Rapined Bear

[Hopes]

Here I am, playing a good old gearsmith deck. I swing with my covert OLHPB, when my opponent suddenly Rapines. I quickly hide, hoping to have the rapine fizzle, but my opponent claims the bear is still taken. I countered that by arguing that the bear was no longer a character, thus not a legal target for Rapine, but he wasn't quite convinced and his doubts evenutally spread to my mind as well. Would one of you be so kind as to tell us who was right and who was not?

[M_Tabak]

Here I am, playing a good old gearsmith deck. I swing with my covert OLHPB, when my opponent suddenly Rapines. I quickly hide, hoping to have the rapine fizzle, but my opponent claims the bear is still taken. I countered that by arguing that the bear was no longer a character, thus not a legal target for Rapine, but he wasn't quite convinced and his doubts evenutally spread to my mind as well. Would one of you be so kind as to tell us who was right and who was not?

You were right, except for your use of the term "fizzle". :D


If the effect of a card refers to a specific card type, but the card it is trying to affect is no longer that type, then the card is not affected by that effect.

[Hopes]

Thanks a lot! This will be useful in the future I'm sure of it.

Now, to rub it in my buddy's face...:D

[DoughboyDominatrix]

Would his opponent still have to pay the cost of rapine and sacrifice a character or item even though his spell fizzles?

[doc8466]

All costs for Rapine would have been paid before OLHPB paid to lose his character status, so yes, the cost and sacrifice stay spent and sacrificed respectively.