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, 3 November 2013
Hi Rules Team,
I searched things like "Retribution trigger" and found the following results. However, that's an old ruling and since then I know there's been a change in ruling re: reacting to the same trigger multiple times. I can't find that second change (reacting to the same trigger) despite some effort so I'd like to ask here:
My opponent attacks me and takes a province. Can I react by playing Retribution, taking one of his provinces, and then playing another Retribution? I want to make sure this doesn't violate that recent ruling on reacting to the same trigger (the end of the original Attack Phase).
Thanks!
Jon Palmer (rules official), 4 November 2013
Hi Rules Team,
I searched things like "Retribution trigger" and found the following results. However, that's an old ruling and since then I know there's been a change in ruling re: reacting to the same trigger multiple times. I can't find that second change (reacting to the same trigger) despite some effort so I'd like to ask here:
My opponent attacks me and takes a province. Can I react by playing Retribution, taking one of his provinces, and then playing another Retribution? I want to make sure this doesn't violate that recent ruling on reacting to the same trigger (the end of the original Attack Phase).
Thanks!
Yes, you may do that. The restriction on reaction triggers means that you can't use the same copy of an ability to react multiple times to the same trigger. If it's a different Retribution, it's a different ability.