[Written] Educated Guess

[Dova]

Educated Guess
Quick-Play Spell
If your opponent activates a card or effect that would Summon exactly 1 monster: You can declare one card name; Your opponent must Special Summon a monster with that name, if possible.

 

Original idea was to somehow predict what your opponent would summon, but that didn't work. CnC?

[Hello my name is Enguin]

Would it not be cooler to have something like, guess the name and if you guess right draw a card and negate the monster's effects or something. Because it's already so conditional like.

[Trebuchet MS]

If the card effect in question has targets (e.g. Call of the Haunted), will this card change the target?

 

In fact, do you have to call out legal names to get this to resolve properly? Could you call an illegal name for the effect to force it to blank out?

[Dova]

Would it not be cooler to have something like, guess the name and if you guess right draw a card and negate the monster's effects or something. Because it's already so conditional like.

 

Wanted to do that, but A) If it targeted you would already know B) If it didn't target your opponent could summon a different card instead, and it just gives him the choice to weaken his plays a little, or give you a weak bonus you could just get with Maxx "C".

 

If the card effect in question has targets (e.g. Call of the Haunted), will this card change the target?

 

In fact, do you have to call out legal names to get this to resolve properly? Could you call an illegal name for the effect to force it to blank out?

 

1. The target wouldn't be changed, however a different monster would be Summoned.

 

2. If possible is operative phrase here. If you call a card name they can't Summon, or a card name that doesn't exist, no monster is Summoned instead of the monster they would Summon, so they just Summon the original monster if they targeted, or any monster if they didn't.