Suck the Marrow and Feign Death

L5R CCG Rules board, 6 March 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, 6 March 2013

suck the marrow Maho • Plague Open: Bow and destroy your performing Shugenja and target a Personality: Give the target a -1F/-1C Poison token. Lose 3 Honor. Until the game ends, after each Events Phase begins, give the target a -1F/-1C Poison token.

feign death Reaction: After the resolution of an action or a battle that destroyed a performing Personality you own: Bring him into play (in your home), ignoring costs and Honor Requirement. Bow him. Dishonor him. Lose 2 Honor.

what happen on the personnality?

if my personality(1 chi) is death with 0 chi because of -1c poison token and i play feign death.the token disappears and the personality go to 1 chi this is correct.

now the next turn.the personality is always on the effect of the action "suck the marrow"?and the personality is death with 0 chi?

A player, 6 March 2013

The -1C tokens will cease existing when your Personality is destroyed, after that she'll return to play with Feign Death. However the effects from Suck the Marrow will linger and she'll keep gaining -1C tokens. Eventually she'll be destroyed again when her chi is again reduced to zero.