Sun and Moon #rules-questions

It doesn't have to be in Churo's unit. Per the text, it just has to be "your" and targetable (so, if during a battle, would have to obey the Rule of Location and be at the current battlefield).

There must be an enemy target at the current battlefield to play The Sound of Thunder, per the Rule of Location.

Guided by Honor is different on a number of levels.

Not only a cost, but also "required targeting" which the enemy falls under.

The action cannot be played if required targeting cannot be met.

No. "Kitsune" Family Name or keyword is not automatically equivalent to "Fox" or "Fox Clan".

Sure, but it is still a Mantis Clan Stronghold, and the restriction against playing with printed "Mantis Clan" Personalities has been errata'd off it for Legacy/Open play. But yeah, unfortunately that's not an equivalent keyword, so no cost reduction.

Yeah, Bryan Reese did it one day. I was having an discussion with him about how Yoritomo's Alliance and Mantis Clan were no longer separate things. As of Gold Edition, Mantis Clan supplanted and replaced YA, so they are equivalent, and he said, "Ok, then let's just get rid of that trait on the old Fox box."

Well, yeah, this was way after Jade, and Arc Simulation tournaments always use contemporary printings, not MRPs or Errata post-Arc.

1. No. "Kolat" is not a Clan Alignment. They would have to have something else that is a legal Clan Alignment for you to get the Discount for them also having "Imperial", per the Stronghold text.

2+. This box was printed before Gold pooling in Ivory, but effectively, it is saying the 5 Gold it produces cannot be spent on Personalities, so it would be dumb to bow it when paying for a guy, because none of the Gold can go toward buying a guy. That's it. I worded it really cumbersomely in the Oracle text; in hindsight, I probably should have just said, "this Stronghold will only pay for non-Personality cards" or something? It's sort of the inverse of Gold that will only pay for a specific single card, so it was a diffcult thing to wrap one's head around, especially when Gold Pooling was a new thing at the time I was doing most Oracle texts.

Attacks from Strats cannot normally be combined under most-current Rules. However, in Lotus, RAs from Strats were being "produced" by the performer. Thus, what the Oracle text allows you to do is combine them with other attacks from the performer's unit as per the most-current combining Rules as if they were "from" the performer, but not with each other (combined Attacks each must be from a different card in the unit). So, no 5 sets of RA2s.

As worded, under contemporary 20F Rules, the "minimum of 1" limits the Sensei's reduction after all other reductions, so Zen's bullet #2 above does not apply. But it definitely does not increase 0G Holdings.

I mean, in a Legacy environment, it's really no longer feasible for classic Fox Box to exclude Mantis Clan Personalities, and it would still work as printed for arc simulation, so I'm not all that against this particular call.

I can find no OBH Rule that makes Reactions and Interrupts equivalent, so no, Fall on Your Knees cannot negate Interrupts.

Well, this gets into an unpleasant gray area with the fact that not every card wording in the Oracle (because some wordings are unconverted to post-Emperor templating), as well as the Legacy Rules themselves, do not fully address the fact that under the post-Ivory Ruleset, there are no such things as non-Gold or non-bowing-the-card-the-action-is-on "costs". Post Ivory, everything that is not a Gold Cost or a "[bow icon]" cost is actually an effect upon which later effects are conditional. So, until I actually get around to rewording all cards in the Oracle that way, some appear to have "costs" which under Ivory Rules would now be "effects", including that Dishonoring.

I'm not following how what you said immediately above relates to what I said? Strictly speaking, Game of Sincerity's Oracle wording does not mesh with OBH/Ivory Rules, so the answer of its interaction with The Sun Returns is unclear and open to non-objective interpretation. That said, most interpretations would agree you don't have to Dishonor your guy if it gets hit with The Sun Returns.

So, you're saying I should finish updating all of them to remove the inconsistencies? ;P It's on my to-do list; maybe if the US economy ever lets me retire.

Yes, technically, but at some point my goal was to convert all the cards' wordings in the Oracle to a format they would be in if they were printed under the final ruleset. So, that would mean that things that used to be costs would instead be effects, upon which later effects are conditional, through use of the phrase "to"; as in, "Bow your target performing Personality to make a Ranged Attack equal to their Force."

So, to answer your questions:

1. The negation action affects any action that is on an Event. In many cases, that will be the action that puts them into play, but many Ivory/20F+ Events instead have actions that you simply use from the Province and then discard the Event straight from there.

2. The Invest is a wholly separate thing from the negation Interrupt. You can "Interrupt Equip" the Spell, and then take the negation Interrupt while it's in play, or you can take the negation Interrupt while it's already in play. Or you can Interrupt Equip the Spell and not take the negation Interrupt. Whichever.

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To elaborate, "permanent effects" copied from the original (per Egg's text) would be ongoing effects with a "permanent/end of game" duration; not Item modifications.

Ah! I see what happened. The Oracle text is accidentally based on the Winds of Change version, not the LE MRP. I don't think there was any errata reverting it; just a clerical error there. Will fix.