Daigotsu Gyoken EXP3

L5R CCG Rules board, 8 September 2014 to 9 September 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, 8 September 2014

Should the first destruction of Daigotsu Gyoken EXP3 be negated even if it is due to normal battle resolution? The card specifies "another player's card", so I think that Gyoken still dies because of battle resolution, but I find the wording unclear...

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 September 2014

Should the first destruction of Daigotsu Gyoken EXP3 be negated even if it is due to normal battle resolution? The card specifies "another player's card", so I think that Gyoken still dies because of battle resolution, but I find the wording unclear...

You are correct; battle resolution kills him. Battle Resolution destruction comes from the Rulebook, not "another player's card".