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, 1 April 2013
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Temple of Death xp http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8373 Limited: Target a discarded Personality: He becomes honorably dead.
Otomo Sensei http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=5820 Reaction: Any number of times per turn, after a player chooses a card for which he searched his deck or discard pile, remove a card in your hand from the game: Remove the searched-for card from the game.
Am I correct in assuming (from the linked ruling) that if I have Otomo Sensei and my opponent uses his Temple of Death xp to make one of his own discarded personalities honorably dead, I can use Otomo Sensei's reaction to remove the target from the game?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 2 April 2013
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Temple of Death xp http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8373 Limited: Target a discarded Personality: He becomes honorably dead.
Otomo Sensei http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=5820 Reaction: Any number of times per turn, after a player chooses a card for which he searched his deck or discard pile, remove a card in your hand from the game: Remove the searched-for card from the game.
Am I correct in assuming (from the linked ruling) that if I have Otomo Sensei and my opponent uses his Temple of Death xp to make one of his own discarded personalities honorably dead, I can use Otomo Sensei's reaction to remove the target from the game?
Don't you have better things to do with your... fate hand?
Yes, you are correct. Temple of Death xp is searching, and therefore Otomo Sensei can remove its target from the game.
A player, 3 April 2013
With regards tothis ruling here.
I don't understand how Temple of Death Exp is "getting" a card. You search your dynasty deck discard pile, and target a guy, so does target equal get?
I guess I felt that "searches for and gets" (text of Otomo Sensei) meant put into play, hand, or provinces. Like to get it means to take it from one place and put it in another, and Temple Exp isn't doing that. The card is still in the same place it was before. The discard pile, just in a different state.
Paul Ashman
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 3 April 2013
With regards tothis ruling here.
I don't understand how Temple of Death Exp is "getting" a card. You search your dynasty deck discard pile, and target a guy, so does target equal get?
I guess I felt that "searches for and gets" (text of Otomo Sensei) meant put into play, hand, or provinces. Like to get it means to take it from one place and put it in another, and Temple Exp isn't doing that. The card is still in the same place it was before. The discard pile, just in a different state.
Paul Ashman
Well, thank you both for bringing this to our attention.
In attempting to define the oblique, original "get", it appears I "Oracle-worded" the card too loosely.
Otomo Sensei has now been fixed to specifically interact with when a card is searched-for and removed.
And before you ask, we're also specifically adding removal (albeit temporary) to the sequence of several actions which move cards within a deck to the top or bottom, so that they interact with this wording of Otomo Sensei explicitly and properly.
So, Jon's ruling above is reversed, and Otomo Sensei CANNOT React to the action of Temple of Death.