A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 30 October 2012
My opponent announces Trusted Counsel (TC) during a battle. I want to react to it with Draw Them Out (DTO). 1) if my opponent did not draw any cards prior to TC, can I even announce DTO? 2) can I play DTO between the first and second card-draws of my opponent with his TC? 3) if the answer to 2) is yes, can my opponent just decide not to draw any more cards with TC (thus ignoring DTO's discard effect)?
In other words, is the number of cards drawn with TC decided once at the beginning of its resolution, or are there 3 separate, consecutive decisions whether to draw or not?
If there are separate decisions, do I have to choose "draw or boost" after each decision, or do I have to make all my choices once my opponent has finished drawing? Do I have to choose the number of cards I want to draw in advance, or can I make successive decisions based on the cards I am drawing one by one?
Trusted Counsel Battle: Draw zero to three cards. For each card drawn, the enemy leader may either draw a card or give +3F to a Personality at the current battlefield.
Draw Them Out Reaction: Before a player who has already drawn Fate cards this turn draws one or more Fate cards due to his own card effects: The next five Fate cards that player draws this turn (including the ones about to be drawn) are discarded immediately after being drawn. Lose 1 Honor.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 30 October 2012
My opponent announces Trusted Counsel (TC) during a battle. I want to react to it with Draw Them Out (DTO). 1) if my opponent did not draw any cards prior to TC, can I even announce DTO? 2) can I play DTO between the first and second card-draws of my opponent with his TC? 3) if the answer to 2) is yes, can my opponent just decide not to draw any more cards with TC (thus ignoring DTO's discard effect)?
In other words, is the number of cards drawn with TC decided once at the beginning of its resolution, or are there 3 separate, consecutive decisions whether to draw or not?
If there are separate decisions, do I have to choose "draw or boost" after each decision, or do I have to make all my choices once my opponent has finished drawing? Do I have to choose the number of cards I want to draw in advance, or can I make successive decisions based on the cards I am drawing one by one?
Trusted Counsel Battle: Draw zero to three cards. For each card drawn, the enemy leader may either draw a card or give +3F to a Personality at the current battlefield.
Draw Them Out Reaction: Before a player who has already drawn Fate cards this turn draws one or more Fate cards due to his own card effects: The next five Fate cards that player draws this turn (including the ones about to be drawn) are discarded immediately after being drawn. Lose 1 Honor.
1. You may not react to Trusted Council with Draw Them Out unless the opponent has already drawn cards this turn.
2. The cards are drawn at once, so no, you may not react "between" them.