Hidden Bastion of the Spider Question

L5R CCG Rules board, 23 February 2015 to 5 March 2015

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 February 2015

I have a foil copy of HBotS, both sides. Side two is printed at 8 PS, same as go first side. Oracle reads it being 9, go first being 8. Which is right?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 March 2015

I have a foil copy of HBotS, both sides. Side two is printed at 8 PS, same as go first side. Oracle reads it being 9, go first being 8. Which is right?

Oracle is correct in this case.