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A player, 27 January 2014
The IvE MRP of Ward of Air has the original reaction: ability changing to the trait Before this Shugenja, or any Personality if this Shugenja is Air, is destroyed by a Battle action, you may destroy this Spell to negate it.
Does this mean that if i have it attached to an Air Shugenja who is currently sitting at home during a battle and my opponent kills one of my men in battle with an action would ward of air trigger? And because it is a trait will it automatically trigger regardless of the owner's intention? say i want to get rid of the ward of air by killing a useless spud in battle would it automatically kill off the ward of air instead if on an air shugenja?
regards
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 28 January 2014
The IvE MRP of Ward of Air has the original reaction: ability changing to the trait Before this Shugenja, or any Personality if this Shugenja is Air, is destroyed by a Battle action, you may destroy this Spell to negate it.
Does this mean that if i have it attached to an Air Shugenja who is currently sitting at home during a battle and my opponent kills one of my men in battle with an action would ward of air trigger? And because it is a trait will it automatically trigger regardless of the owner's intention? say i want to get rid of the ward of air by killing a useless spud in battle would it automatically kill off the ward of air instead if on an air shugenja?
regards
1. Yes
2. Sooort of... if attached to an Air shugenja, the trait will trigger before every Personality's destruction, but you may have missed the part of its text where it says "you may". Its controller has the option to choose when to destroy it to negate the destruction.
3. No; see above