frostmonarch said:
If I only have two Marauding Captains on my field, can my opponent attack my life points directly if he does not have a monster like Jinzo #7 that has the specific effect of being able to attack an opponent's life points directly? My opponent seems to think that you can bypass the captains and attack my lifepoints with his archfield soldier, much like he could if I only had a Legendary Fisherman on the board.
Thanks
Frostmonarch
Unless the opponent has a monster that specifically can attack directly by effect, he cannot declare an attack on your life points. Marauding Captain's effect states that "as long as this card is face up your opponent may not declare an attack on another Warrior Type Monster on the field." It is not preventing all attacks on monsters, just Warriors (Marauding Captain does not include himself in his effect).
You could attack Marauding Captain, but the other Marauding Captain is preventing it, so he is unable to attack since he would have to attack a monster and there is no other monster type on the field to attack.
The Legendary Fisherman is different since he specifically states that "This monster cannot be selected as an attack target." So basically, The Legendary Fisherman is pretty much "invisible" and you can ignore him if he is alone on the field, and attack directly.
"Declaring" an attack is different from "Selecting" an attack target.
Declare: If there is a non-Warrior or face-down card, you must declare that monster as an attack target.
Select: If there is no monster other than Fisherman, you cannot select him, but you may select your opponent as an attack target.
2 Command Knights
You could "almost" make the same argument for Command Knight that he is the same as Fisherman, but his effect states that "as long as 1 other monster is on the field, this card can not be selected as an attack target." So you would have to select the "other" Command Knight, but since he cannot be selected as an attack target either, your opponent cant attack.
