Sun and Moon #rules-questions

Right. Something looking for an ability won't find one if the ability was removed, regardless of whether it's looking for a "printed" one or not. It just means that it will only find printed ones when there are ones to find.

Reactions are not subject to Presence and Location Rules.

Correct.

I feel like there's some disconnect here.

Call the Inferno is targeting Higaru, you Interrupt the Call RA action with The Masters' Guard. So, now the RA targets the Guard. Where does Pierce come in?

Pierce doesn't target anything. It modifies the RA to compare against printed Force rather than current.

Sorry, I didn't read Higaru to realize he wasn't.

Master of Puppets (Onyx, Spell)

twisting your mind and smashing your dreams

No on all counts. Abilities on bowed cards can't be used, and the bowing of the Spell is a cost being before the second colon.

Unless it was token-based, yes. Card memory persists unless the card becomes both out of play and face-down.

You can't take the action because you can't meet the required targeting.

Required targeting is required to even announce the action. The effects can fully fail and result in no change to the game state, but the targeting must be met.

Yes. The wording had to be updated to keep its original function because the Rules changed in Samurai Edition.

Also, note that the in-battle target doesn't have to be a Shugenja.

Tactical in the Onyx Rules Datasheet requires you to target an unbowed Tactician, so you would have a dead ability.

It is "on"/"from" but not printed.

Yes, both lose. "Duelists win ties against non-Duelists" is not a CE Rule. The benefit for Duelist in CE is focusing first against non-duelists with equal or higher duel stat, even if they were the challenger.

Assuming the trait hasn't already triggered its one time this turn: Player 1 plus Overwhelmed. Player 2 chooses not to move anyone and instead targets their highest Force Personality for destruction. Before the destruction occurs, Player 1 must discard 2 cards or the destruction is negated.

Strategies just naturally go to the discard after being played and resolving, unless their effects have them enter play. It's neither a cost nor an effect of the card/action itself.

Same trigger and priority; active-player chooses.

No. Banishment is not destuction.

Also, "Bad Daizu" is an Open that resolves at the end of the turn, and Yu only triggers during Battles.

Battle resolution is also during a battle. 😛

You may also be confusing the question? Hinosai was asking about the new Yu trait introduced in the Onyx/Shattered Empire set Gates of Tengoku, not the old Yu keyword.

Unfortunately, "its" in the second sentence would refer to the entire modified noun in the prior sentence, so "a target enemy card with lower Force and without attachments". If it is not such a thing, neither effect can happen.

"Base" means "printed", so yeah, that still all works as you described.

1) No, there are no differences. Interrupts always happen after Costs are paid.

2) You cannot Interrupt or Respond to an Interrupt or Response, only to a non-Interrupt/Response action. Daigoro cannot combo with Churo at all.

Huh. Odd. My mistake; what format is that from?

Hrm. Definitely not an official one like Ivory or 20F; the proper sequence in both is: Announce * Pay Cost * [Choose Targets] * Interrupt * Resolve (the bracketed step was added in 20F, but the others didn't move).

I guess it might be OBH Legacy or Modern? I vaguely recall one or both of those flipped "choose targets" and "pay costs" around to happen in the opposite order, but I guess maybe one or both messed with Interrupt timing too.

Reactions work fairly radically differently than Interrupts/Responses, despite the latter two action types "replacing" the first. Yeah, "Reactions" are not bound by hardly any constraints like their successors, and you can React inside a Reaction inside a Reaction as you like (assuming the appropriate triggers are happening).

Indeed. To be a bit more comprehensive in my explanation, Reactions are pretty much just like triggered traits except that they're abilities and therefore carry with them all that means, chiefly in that it's optional whether to use them or not, and also being once-per-turn by default. Otherwise, their timing is just "when the trigger happens" and they're not bound by Presence or Location Rules.

smacks you with a printed out copy of the 20F CR and Onyx Datasheet

Only Items with the Armor and Weapon keyword are resticted to one of each type; one Weapon (or two for "Kensai") and one Armor. All other attachments are unlimited; any number of non-Armor/Weapon Items/Followers/Spells.

in some early Editions, Shugenja were limited by their Chi to how many Spells they could attach. This was dropped later.

Oh, and also-also, in the last Edition or two, they introduced "one-handed" and "two-handed" Weapons, and Kensai couldn't hold two of the latter.

I can't remember which Edition that Rule was dropped; please consult your Rulebook if you're playing a retro simulation format. 🙂 But in the latest formats, 20F/Onyx, there is no Spell-attachment limit based on Chi in the Rules.

Unless otherwise stated, per the Onyx/ShE Rules Datasheet, Raid battles' resolutions don't destroy defenders.