Magical Dimension vs. Big Shield Guardna

[RPGKid]

Player A has a face-up spellcaster on his/her side of the field.

Player B has a face-down monster and no spell/trap cards.

Player A activates Magical Dimension and sacrifices his/her face-up spellcaster for a Dark Magician of Chaos, and targets Player B's face-down monster.

Player B flips up a Big Shield Guardna.

Would Magical Dimension be totally negated or would the part of the destruction of the monster card be negated. If Magical Dimension is totally negated, would Player A's Dark Magician of Chaos also be destroyed. This came up when my friend and I were playtesting for tournaments this weekend. I'm running a spellcaster deck that I built last weekend.

 

[Tiso]

Only the destruction part since that is an optional effect that he/she can use when the monster hits the field.

 

[NLFW]

magical dimension does not target...

 

[skey23]

And because it doesn't target, "Big Shield Gardna" will not be flipped face-up.

 

[Tiso]

It does not target?

 

[anthonyj]

It does not target?

No you select the monster upon resolution not activation. Thus Big Shield won't see it coming.

 

[skey23]

And just to make it 'official'....lol

Because you select which monster to destroy when "Magical Dimension" resolves, (not when it's activated) "Magical Dimension" does not target.

There's the ruling from "Magical Dimension"...lol.

 

[Tiso]

Hmm. Interesting.

 

[drzero7]

Yeah, kinda like how Creature Swap doesn't target and thus you can swap a face-down Big Shield Guardna.