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, 23 May 2013
Imperial Deployment: Open: Choose your performing Personality: The Empress dispatches him to the Colonies. Negate other players' cards' effects that prevent him assigning. After the next time this turn an attack is declared, straighten his unit. Hotei's Contentment: Open: Discard this card and target a Personality: He may not assign to, and will not move into, an attacking army. Accidental Confession: Open: Choose your performing unbowed Courtier, discard the Imperial Favor, and target a Personality: Dishonor him. His controller may not assign him, and he will not move, to battlefields this turn.
So, my question these three cards is a little arcane, but it did actually come up in our Kotei.
Hotei's and Accidental are worded slightly differently - one saying that a personality may not assign, and the other saying that the controller may not assign the personality. Since Imperial Deployment only negates effects that prevent the PERSONALITY from assigning, would it fail against Accidental Confession (since AC restricts player choices, not a card's ability to assign)? Or are the wordings on Hotei's and Accidental essentially interchangeable?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 23 May 2013
Imperial Deployment: Open: Choose your performing Personality: The Empress dispatches him to the Colonies. Negate other players' cards' effects that prevent him assigning. After the next time this turn an attack is declared, straighten his unit. Hotei's Contentment: Open: Discard this card and target a Personality: He may not assign to, and will not move into, an attacking army. Accidental Confession: Open: Choose your performing unbowed Courtier, discard the Imperial Favor, and target a Personality: Dishonor him. His controller may not assign him, and he will not move, to battlefields this turn.
So, my question these three cards is a little arcane, but it did actually come up in our Kotei.
Hotei's and Accidental are worded slightly differently - one saying that a personality may not assign, and the other saying that the controller may not assign the personality. Since Imperial Deployment only negates effects that prevent the PERSONALITY from assigning, would it fail against Accidental Confession (since AC restricts player choices, not a card's ability to assign)? Or are the wordings on Hotei's and Accidental essentially interchangeable?
Essentially interchangeable.