Untap target creature

"Eibi" <eibi99.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in news:1150375714.222456.297740
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> Hello.
>
> Some cards have the text "Untap target creature and...". For example,
> "Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn". I
> believe that you can target a untapped creature, but my friends don't
> agree with me. They say that you can't untap and untapped permanent,
> buy I reply that in that case the text should be "Untap target tapped
> creature". How is right?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
This sounds rather like

Threaten
2R
Sorcery
Untap target creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That
creature gains haste until end of turn. (It can attack this turn.)

Your reading is correct: the only restriction on which permanents can be
targetted is that you must target a creature. It doesn't have to be
tapped, and for that matter doesn't have to be controlled by another
player. If part of a spell's effect is impossible, that part is simply
skipped, and the spell does as much as it can. Therefore, if the card is
untapped when the spell resolves, that part of the effect does nothing,
and the rest of the effect continues as normal.

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