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, 16 November 2012
It seems an obvious question but I couldn't find a clear answer in the comprehensive rules nor by searching this forum. I ask because we had a game where Shosuro Aroru xp2 and Red Crane Dojo were both in play. My opponent wanted to bow my Red Crane Dojo with an effect, and I wanted to redirect said effect to another holding. Does this work? Are my holdings in the same location as my personalities? All I found in the Comp. rules is "The home is the area where a player’s Stronghold is located and where cards usually enter play. It is represented by the area in front of the Provinces and decks. It is also a location." and all it says under holdings "The Holding enters play bowed." no mention of where.
Thanks for your help!
Alex Jones (rules official), 17 November 2012
It seems an obvious question but I couldn't find a clear answer in the comprehensive rules nor by searching this forum. I ask because we had a game where Shosuro Aroru xp2 and Red Crane Dojo were both in play. My opponent wanted to bow my Red Crane Dojo with an effect, and I wanted to redirect said effect to another holding. Does this work? Are my holdings in the same location as my personalities? All I found in the Comp. rules is "The home is the area where a player’s Stronghold is located and where cards usually enter play. It is represented by the area in front of the Provinces and decks. It is also a location." and all it says under holdings "The Holding enters play bowed." no mention of where.
Thanks for your help!
Holdings, like other cards, enter play in your Home, and there are no card effects (nor game rules) that will move them to battlefields.
See Areas of the Game, Home: The home is the area where a player’s Stronghold is located and where cards usually enter play. It is represented by the area in front of the Provinces and decks. It is also a location.
Note that the rules for Holdings do not specify where they enter play, so they use the default, which is your Home.