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 July 2014
Shabura [Promo]
4F/2C
0HR/8GC/1PH
Bushi * Naga * Nonhuman
Open, Bow: Give Shabura a -2F/+3C Change token of she does not have one, or remove one if she does.
"My people are no longer numerous. Our temples abandoned, our cities in ruins. We no longer wield the powers we once held. But our tale is not yet concluded."
I understand the rules policy has been relaxed somewhat to permit the asking of questions about officially previewed cards. I therefore have a couple of quick questions about Shabura:
a) If I my stronghold is the Fruitful Port of the Mantis (a Mantis-Clan stronghold), and I recruit Shabura from my province (absent other cards, actions, interrupts, or shennanigans), what is the gold cost I must pay? 8 gc, or 10 gc? (I.E., does Shabura have a clan keyword, or is she unaligned? There is no spelled-out clan keyword, but looking at the mon she appears to have a printed clan keyword... .)
b) If the answer to the above is 10 gc because Shabura has a clan mon, and I am drafting, can I choose whatever clan Shabura belongs to (assumption in that case would be "Naga Clan", but you know what they say about assumptions...) as one of my clans? (For flavour reasons / tournament reporting reasons, even if I do not draft (or cannot draft) any cards with her clan keyword?)
Thanks!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 23 July 2014
Shabura [Promo]
4F/2C
0HR/8GC/1PH
Bushi * Naga * Nonhuman
Open, Bow: Give Shabura a -2F/+3C Change token of she does not have one, or remove one if she does.
"My people are no longer numerous. Our temples abandoned, our cities in ruins. We no longer wield the powers we once held. But our tale is not yet concluded."
I understand the rules policy has been relaxed somewhat to permit the asking of questions about officially previewed cards. I therefore have a couple of quick questions about Shabura:
a) If I my stronghold is the Fruitful Port of the Mantis (a Mantis-Clan stronghold), and I recruit Shabura from my province (absent other cards, actions, interrupts, or shennanigans), what is the gold cost I must pay? 8 gc, or 10 gc? (I.E., does Shabura have a clan keyword, or is she unaligned? There is no spelled-out clan keyword, but looking at the mon she appears to have a printed clan keyword... .)
b) If the answer to the above is 10 gc because Shabura has a clan mon, and I am drafting, can I choose whatever clan Shabura belongs to (assumption in that case would be "Naga Clan", but you know what they say about assumptions...) as one of my clans? (For flavour reasons / tournament reporting reasons, even if I do not draft (or cannot draft) any cards with her clan keyword?)
Thanks!
a) If you're playing by Ivory Edition rules, you pay 8. Under those rules, only the 9 great Clans are Clan Alignments. Her funtastic border only counts as a Clan Alignment in Legacy/Big Deck play, by their separate rules.