o:"the target of a spell or ability" >> "the target of another spell or ability" & o: "If you control that spell or ability" >> "For each spell or ability you control that targets that permanent"
But if you target something with this, then it's a target of a spell or ability, right? And what if you control the other ability that's targeting the target?
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Inspired by me mistaking a Capenna cat person's ears for elf person's ears in a recently publicized illustration.
See Hide Truth.
So you cannot force them to return a land if they control no nonland permanent.
Why isn't it just "returns a permanent to its owner's hand"
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Fixed typo
See Failed Genesis.
In that case the answer would have been "the ability loses a target and might fizzle because of it" - still true if there is no other legal target.
You had left off the "or ability" from the redirect clause the first time
o:"the target of a spell or ability" >> "the target of another spell or ability" & o: "If you control that spell or ability" >> "For each spell or ability you control that targets that permanent"
It has to be a legal target as you declare it a target, but I can clarify it to another.
If you control the other spell or ability, you choose new targets for it. That's literally what the second sentence is saying.
But if you target something with this, then it's a target of a spell or ability, right? And what if you control the other ability that's targeting the target?
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