Any Targeting Effect vs. Strike Ninja

[RPGKid]

If I remove Strike Ninja by it's effect, would an effect that targets, like Thousand-Eyes Restrict, go to another target. I'm guessing no.

 

[anthonyj]

No the target had already been selected so it will resolve without effect.

 

[Maruno]

I used the same thinking (cards don't switch targets) to prove that Hammer Shot wasn't targetting, even though it only affects one monster. I said that monster could vary between activation and resolution, and that the card resolved properly (assuming a face-up monster still present, of course), and since targets cannot change then Hammer Shot didn't target in the first place. Easy.

Of course, my explanation to this person was longer. Oh, the pains of having to teach people the Konami way!

 

[skey23]

But that explanation only works for cards that DON'T target. And that's not what was asked by the initial poster.

 

[Maruno]

Well, no, I was going off on a tangent with a little anecdote.