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, 29 October 2013
In Card Vault, I have a note dated 2005-Nov-07 and sourced from the old "AEG Rulings and Errata" list that says:
"The Imperial Edition Oracle of Water counts as the Oracle of Fire for deck-building and play purposes."
I guess the titles on these two cards were mistakenly switched, because, just as the text for the Oracle of Water seems to be for the Oracle of Fire, the Oracle of Fire's text seems to be written for the Oracle of Water, yet, I see no similar note attached to the Oracle of Fire in CV. So, my question is: I know the text has been corrected in the Oracle of the Void database, but, for deck-building and play purposes, does the IE Oracle of Fire similarly count as the Oracle of Water?
MacBeth2001 wrote: "No. In this case, Most Recent Printing Rules would take effect, and your IE copy of Oracle of Fire would be considered to have the text of the most recent printing of the card with that title/exp level, that being the GE version of Oracle of Fire (as updated by the Oracle of the Void database of course)."
Yeah, I realized that after thinking about it some more. Sorry for wasting time with such a silly question. 8-P
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 29 October 2013
In Card Vault, I have a note dated 2005-Nov-07 and sourced from the old "AEG Rulings and Errata" list that says:
"The Imperial Edition Oracle of Water counts as the Oracle of Fire for deck-building and play purposes."
I guess the titles on these two cards were mistakenly switched, because, just as the text for the Oracle of Water seems to be for the Oracle of Fire, the Oracle of Fire's text seems to be written for the Oracle of Water, yet, I see no similar note attached to the Oracle of Fire in CV. So, my question is: I know the text has been corrected in the Oracle of the Void database, but, for deck-building and play purposes, does the IE Oracle of Fire similarly count as the Oracle of Water?
MacBeth2001 wrote: "No. In this case, Most Recent Printing Rules would take effect, and your IE copy of Oracle of Fire would be considered to have the text of the most recent printing of the card with that title/exp level, that being the GE version of Oracle of Fire (as updated by the Oracle of the Void database of course)."
Yeah, I realized that after thinking about it some more. Sorry for wasting time with such a silly question. 8-P
No. In this case, Most Recent Printing Rules would take effect, and your IE copy of Oracle of Fire would be considered to have the text of the most recent printing of the card with that title/exp level, that being the GE version of Oracle of Fire (as updated by the Oracle of the Void database of course).