Negishi EXP and The power of night

L5R CCG Rules board, 11 February 2013 to 28 February 2013

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, 11 February 2013

Hi everyone,

I have a doubt about these two cards action/trait. Will destroy the action power of the night:

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Ninja Personality, bow him if he is not Shadowlands, and target a Personality: Before this battle resolves, give him -3C

performed by a ninja unit with a total cost of 5 ( for example) to Negishi Exp :

Negate Negishi's destruction from effects of actions performed by any Personality whose unit's total Gold Cost was lower than Negishi's unit's(when they performed it).??

The doubt is with this rule:

Special rules apply to the prevention of Personality destruction from zero Chi (see Chi death rule) and other continuously applied destruction effects. Instantaneous effects that are triggered by a single instance of destruction, such as the trait "Before this card is destroyed: Negate the destruction," will not prevent destruction from such an effect. Only an effect that is continuous or ongoing - that is, triggered by something else than the destruction itself - can overcome the Personality's destruction (example: "This Personality will not be destroyed"). If this happens, the destruction merely fails to happen while the prevention is in effect; there is no continuous "loop" of destruction and prevention that can trigger other effects. Once the prevention is no longer in effect, destruction happens as normal.

Thanks in advice.

A player, 11 February 2013

Will destroy the action power of the night:[...] performed by a ninja unit with a total cost of 5 ( for example) to Negishi Exp :

Negate Negishi's destruction from effects of actions performed by any Personality whose unit's total Gold Cost was lower than Negishi's unit's(when they performed it).??

How unexpected Kicking this up for discussion.

A player, 28 February 2013

Chi Death Rule says: This destruction for having zero Chi may only be negated or prevented by effects that specifically negate or prevent destruction for having zero Chi.

Daigotsu Negishi XP's trait doesn't specifically negate or prevent destruction for having zero chi, so his trait would fail to negate chi death.