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, 7 March 2013
Hi Rules Team,
Let's say that I have two personalities and one of them is equipped with the Emerald Armor. My opponent plays an action that targets a whole unit like A Stain Cleansed. Is my Unit with the Emerald Armor a valid target? I don't think so because targeting a Unit targets all the cards in that Unit simultaneously, which would include targeting the Personality, which the Emerald Armor in turn prevents.
Thanks!
Relevant Card Text:
Attaches to an Emerald Champion ignoring costs. This Personality has +1PH and Imperial • Magistrate. Other players may not target this Personality with actions while there is another Personality at his location who is a legal target for the action.
Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate, target an enemy card without attachments or an enemy unit, and pay Gold equal to the card or unit's total Gold Cost minus 2: Destroy it.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 8 March 2013
Hi Rules Team,
Let's say that I have two personalities and one of them is equipped with the Emerald Armor. My opponent plays an action that targets a whole unit like A Stain Cleansed. Is my Unit with the Emerald Armor a valid target? I don't think so because targeting a Unit targets all the cards in that Unit simultaneously, which would include targeting the Personality, which the Emerald Armor in turn prevents.
Thanks!
Relevant Card Text:
Actually, actions that target a unit only target the Personality, not all cards (tho they affect all cards). Therefore, as you stated, if there's another Personality that is a legal target for A Stain Cleansed, they must be targeted instead of the Personality with the Emerald Armor.