false ring of air

L5R CCG Rules board, 19 April 2014 to 20 April 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, 19 April 2014

If I target a 1 chi personality with chuda rintaro and then play ambush on him, the personality should die to zero chi. Assuming nothing else happens in the ambush battle, can I play the false ring of air?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 20 April 2014

If I target a 1 chi personality with chuda rintaro and then play ambush on him, the personality should die to zero chi. Assuming nothing else happens in the ambush battle, can I play the false ring of air?

Yes, as long as your ambushing Personality has at least 1F. A 0F Personality against an empty army is no result; tie, win, or loss. But otherwise, it is a win and you'll fulfill the requirements for the False Air Ring, because you were indeed opposed however briefly.