House of Exotic Goods w/o face up cards

L5R CCG Rules board, 23 January 2014

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 January 2014

Let's say I have exactly two provinces, both with face down cards.

May I activate: House of Exotic Goods Limited: Put one or more face-up cards in your Provinces at the bottom of your deck (and refill the Provinces). Turn all cards in your Provinces face-up. Destroy this Holding.

If yes, do I turn the cards in my provinces face up?

From my understanding of p.48 of the Advanced Rulebook this should be the case.

A player, 23 January 2014

Yes.