Balance of the Force - The Force Is Strong

By dcottingham21, in Star Wars: The Card Game - Rules Questions

Hey everyone, we were playing the other night with the LS Challenge Deck and this card was played. We discussed the first option, 'Return 1 enemy unit to its owner's hand'. The question is, who chooses the unit? Since the word 'target' is not present, we were thinking that the DS player chooses the unit to return. What does everyone think?

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If the DS were to return his unit to his hand, I think it'd have been worded "choose an enemy to return one of his units to his hand". "Return 1 enemy unit to it's owner hand" implies (for me) that you choose one unit among the enemy units and you return it to the owner's hand. So, I'd go with LS choice. My two cents, at least.

Edited by Julia

Concur. I think this is a cheap way to avoid "target" rules (like the undamaged Executor).

Concur. I think this is a cheap way to avoid "target" rules (like the undamaged Executor).

right. I concur that, as worded, it should be the LS player's choice. Yeah, I played A New Hope one game (each player choses 3 units and returns the rest to his/her hand) and my opponent chose 3 units. I can't remember exactly which ones, but he didn't chose the Executor. He tried to use the excuse that it was immune. I explained to him that "Cannot be targeted" does not mean immune to blanket effects (as we call them... something that affects everything on the board). He was not pleased, but put that beast back in his hand.

I think it also words it this way so as to give many options, but the one that jumps to mind is the option of maybe returning an opponent's borrowed defender/attacker to their partner's hand so that you get that unopposed attack or can better defend yourself.