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, 26 May 2014
The Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro says:
Tireless Political Reaction, (bow): After an action from your Political Strategy resolves, shuffle the Strategy into your Fate deck instead of discarding it. You may bow your target performing Courtier to ignore the cost of bowing this Stronghold.
Bayushi says:
You may ignore the cost of bowing Bayushi for Political actions he performs.
1) Would Bayushi be able to fulfill the conditions of the Shadowed Tower reaction without bowing?
2) Is there more recent wording for these? If so, where would I find it? I thought that 'performing' was removed from the game. I got these wordings from the Oracle of the Void database, but if there is a more up-to-date or more official source, I would appreciate a link.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 26 May 2014
The Shadowed Tower of the Shosuro says:
Tireless Political Reaction, (bow): After an action from your Political Strategy resolves, shuffle the Strategy into your Fate deck instead of discarding it. You may bow your target performing Courtier to ignore the cost of bowing this Stronghold.
Bayushi says:
You may ignore the cost of bowing Bayushi for Political actions he performs.
1) Would Bayushi be able to fulfill the conditions of the Shadowed Tower reaction without bowing?
2) Is there more recent wording for these? If so, where would I find it? I thought that 'performing' was removed from the game. I got these wordings from the Oracle of the Void database, but if there is a more up-to-date or more official source, I would appreciate a link.
1) Yes, those cards interact the way you think.
2) Those are the most up-to-date wordings for these cards, though admittedly the entire Oracle isn't quite Ivory-ized yet. In this case though, while performing is gone from Ivory now, it was too integral a part of the game in the past to remove from older cards, so it's preserved on such cards. The definition of "performing" will soon be added to the Legacy Format Rules (I've gotten a little behind, sorry), which besides the Oracle is needed to fully play with all older cards.