Untargetable cards are still targeted, WTF is this bug?

[The Last Straight Dota Player]

It have happened to me several times and I just won a duel because of it, many times when a card is suppoused to be untargetable you can still target it.

I was in a duel and my opponent had an "Evil Eye" deck and had a monster equiped with the spell card Evil Eye of Selene, wich is suppoused to make it untargetable but still I reduced its ATK to 0 with "Guardian of the Golden Land"

Before that, some of my opponents have been able to target BLS - Soldier of Chaos even tho I used a lvl 7+ monster to summon it as the card says, also my opponents have targeted a Vendread ritual even tho I used Vendread Core from the field to summon it.

Have it happened to you or Im I missing something, Im very dissapointed with the game tbh

[ChaosBahamut]

Guardian of the Golden Land doesn't target.

The general rule of thumb: If a card's effect does not SPECIFICALLY say "target", it doesn't target. Even if common sense would suggest otherwise. (there are some exceptions, all of them predate 2011 though when the term "target" was made official and had never been errata'd appropriately)

So no worries, you're not exploiting any bug.

[TormentedSalad]

I don't think guardian of the golden land targets cards specifically say target and if they don't the "targets" for lack of a better word are selected when it comes time to resolve DPE is an example he does not target just destroys 2 cards most people learn this sooner or later and it's far clearer than it used to be

[Angel]

if the card doesn't say it targets it doesn't target

[HeraldOfOpera]

This is the sort of thing I like to call "stupid rule implemented correctly". Others have given the details.

[Knud den Store 🧙‍♂]

Originally posted by HeraldOfOpera:

This is the sort of thing I like to call "stupid rule implemented correctly". Others have given the details.

This ruling took me by surprise with the Tri-brigade boss monster as I had a monster that could not be targeted and I was introduced to YGO rulings.

I guess Konami made one too many monsters that could not be targeted with effects so they made cards that hone-in monsters to get around that.

Very clever, not.