Effect
3 Level 3 monsters During either player's turn, when your opponent targets exactly 1 face-up "Mermail" monster you control for an attack, or with a Spell/Trap effect that could have targeted this card (except during the Damage Step): You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; that attack/effect now targets this card. When this card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard: You can target 1 "Mermail" monster in your Graveyard, except "Mermail Abysstrite"; Special Summon that target.
When activating an effect that changes the attack target, or an effect that changes the target of a Spell/Trap Card's effect, detach 1 Xyz Material from this card as a cost.
Neither an effect that changes the attack target nor an effect that changes the target of a Spell/Trap Card's effect targets.
Even if "Mermail Abysstrite" is destroyed during the Damage Step, you can activate its effect to "target 1 'Mermail' monster in your Graveyard, except 'Mermail Abysstrite', and Special Summon it."
The effect to "target 1 'Mermail' monster in your Graveyard, except 'Mermail Abysstrite', and Special Summon it" is an effect that targets.
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