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, 1 March 2014
So with all of this new "everything is an effect" wording, I'm confused.
On my turn, I do not control the Imperial Favor. The player ability: "Favor Political Limited: Discard the Imperial Favor and a card to draw a card." does not have any costs or required targeting. So, can I announce it even though I don't have the favor, and not discard a card or draw?
On my next action (still do not control the favor) could I play Imperial Summons "Favor Political Open: Bow your Stronghold or discard the Imperial Favor to bow a target Personality." choosing to discard the Imperial Favor, but failing to and thus failing to bow anyone, and play the Ring of Air?
[Ring of air text: Play after you resolve two or more Favor actions in one turn.]
Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2014
So with all of this new "everything is an effect" wording, I'm confused.
On my turn, I do not control the Imperial Favor. The player ability: "Favor Political Limited: Discard the Imperial Favor and a card to draw a card." does not have any costs or required targeting. So, can I announce it even though I don't have the favor, and not discard a card or draw?
On my next action (still do not control the favor) could I play Imperial Summons "Favor Political Open: Bow your Stronghold or discard the Imperial Favor to bow a target Personality." choosing to discard the Imperial Favor, but failing to and thus failing to bow anyone, and play the Ring of Air?
[Ring of air text: Play after you resolve two or more Favor actions in one turn.]
The Good Faith Rule for IvE will include the fact that in order to take a Favor action, you must either control the Favor or have another way of paying the cost of the discard of the Favor. So you cannot have Favor actions "Fail" to play the Ring of Air.