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, 5 March 2013
If I use Yotsu Ueda's ability to target a card and my opponent responds with a reaction (like Kakihara's) which boosts the target's force after I targeted it, what happens? Does Kakihara's reaction (or the like) block Ueda's ability from resolving successfully?
Thanks!
Relevant card text:
Battle: Target an enemy Follower or Personality without Followers with Force equal to or lower than 4: Destroy it.
Reaction: After another player's action targets Kakihara: Give him a Force bonus equal to his Personal Honor.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2013
If I use Yotsu Ueda's ability to target a card and my opponent responds with a reaction (like Kakihara's) which boosts the target's force after I targeted it, what happens? Does Kakihara's reaction (or the like) block Ueda's ability from resolving successfully?
Thanks!
Relevant card text:
No.
As long as Ueda's ability was legal when you targeted it, it's still going to destroy the card you targeted. The Kakihara in this case would still gain its force bonus, then die, which could be pertinent for later effects such as At Any Cost.