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, 16 December 2013
Q1) Writ of Command -> any update on www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99852
Q2) How does Changing Paths work with the new (Ivory Ed.) Ring of Void? Do you just play Changing Paths and, for your next action, get the Ring to your hand?
Q3) I am playing Law of Darkness Dojo. My opponent has 3 personalities in play and I play Gold Buys Security targeting all 3 of them. He still decides to attack with all of them. Does he suffer a single honor loss or 3 distinct honor losses? How much honor does he loose in total?
Q4) Rosoku's Staff was from a day and age (IIRC) where Rings counted for enlightenment by default (as in Ivory). Does the Ring fetched with Rosoku's Staff count for an Enlightenment Victory (under IvE rules)?
Q4b/Q5) What if I use Rosoku's Staff to fetch a Dark Ring? If To Start a Dark Path has resolved / resolves later on, will the Dark Ring also count for an Enlightenment Victory?
Q6) still on To Start a Dark Path, does it resolve under Norikazu Sensei?
Many thanks!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 16 December 2013
Q1) Writ of Command -> any update on www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99852
Q2) How does Changing Paths work with the new (Ivory Ed.) Ring of Void? Do you just play Changing Paths and, for your next action, get the Ring to your hand?
Q3) I am playing Law of Darkness Dojo. My opponent has 3 personalities in play and I play Gold Buys Security targeting all 3 of them. He still decides to attack with all of them. Does he suffer a single honor loss or 3 distinct honor losses? How much honor does he loose in total?
Q4) Rosoku's Staff was from a day and age (IIRC) where Rings counted for enlightenment by default (as in Ivory). Does the Ring fetched with Rosoku's Staff count for an Enlightenment Victory (under IvE rules)?
Q4b/Q5) What if I use Rosoku's Staff to fetch a Dark Ring? If To Start a Dark Path has resolved / resolves later on, will the Dark Ring also count for an Enlightenment Victory?
Q6) still on To Start a Dark Path, does it resolve under Norikazu Sensei?
Many thanks!
1) My apologies for the delay on this; the major hitch has been trying to factor in the removal of performing come Ivory and all the repercussions of how many cards would not work as intended because of these two really odd cards.
But an answer is deserved and needed, so I'll say for now that if you happen to control a card in the army opposing yours (via Writ of Command or Ninube Ogoku, which only allow the card to be IN another player's army, NOT change control of it), then you MAY take any action that targets "enemy" cards and target cards in EITHER army.
2) It doesn't. Ring of the Void no longer has a base (printed) TRAIT that puts it into play.
3) As currently worded in the Oracle, Gold Buys Security isn't a Battle action, so it doesn't interact with Law of Darkness Dojo. I see that may be in error, but as the Topaz Championship Big Deck event is in 12 days, I am loath to change it so close to the event and will research/revisit this card afterward.
4) Incorrect Recollection. Its MRP was in Samurai Edition, when that Rule was in effect.
5) see above.
6) No. To Start a Dark Path doesn't create a new victory condition, it just modifies how certain cards interact with an existent one.