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, 6 November 2014
Final Ruin's text is :
Fire Battle, w: You may target your Samurai. Destroy a target enemy card without attachments and with Force less than this Shugenja's or the Samurai's Chi.
Special wording rules (CR p 40) do not cover this precise use of conjunction "or" and thus the sentence is not perfectly clear. Does it means :
"Destroy a target enemy card without attachments and with Force less than this Shugenja's FORCE or the Samurai's Chi."
"Destroy a target enemy card without attachments and with Force less than this Shugenja's CHI or the Samurai's Chi."
Thanks !
Alex Jones (rules official), 10 November 2014
Final Ruin's text is :
Special wording rules (CR p 40) do not cover this precise use of conjunction "or" and thus the sentence is not perfectly clear. Does it means :
"Destroy a target enemy card without attachments and with Force less than this Shugenja's FORCE or the Samurai's Chi."
"Destroy a target enemy card without attachments and with Force less than this Shugenja's CHI or the Samurai's Chi."
Thanks !
The latter.
The sentence should be parsed as: "... with Force less than (this Shugenja's or the Samurai's) Chi."