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A player, 4 March 2015
The new rules in 20 festivals day:
Equip #
Repeatable Open, Gold star 20: Attach a target attachment card, with Gold Cost equal to the amount you paid, from your hand to your target Personality. Sometimes “Equip” is used as an effect in card text. This means that the effects of the Equip action are activated, and the card’s Gold Cost is checked against the amount paid for the original action. If the original action did not give the opportunity to pay Gold, then before the card is attached, its Gold Cost must be paid or the attachment fails. The original action may modify any of the rules of the Equip procedure; for example, it may Equip a card “ignoring cost.” Effects that merely “attach” a card do not invoke the Equip procedure or action.
Targeting # Targeting is a special kind of choice that involves designating one or more cards or other game entities (such as a Province or player). Targets are chosen at an early step of the Action Sequence, and targeting is carried out based on these choices, with any intervening changes, in the actions’ resolution step. The word “target” must appear for the procedure to be considered targeting — just “choosing” something is not targeting
Temple of serenity: Battle, , w: Equip a Spell to your target opposed Shugenja for 2 less Gold. Gain 1 Honor, or 2 Honor if the target is defending.
If do not invoke equip procedure, an not appear the Word TARGET in the action. Can i play this battle if i dont have a spell in my hand and gain 2 honor with my defending shugenja?
Thanks
Alex Jones (rules official), 9 March 2015
The new rules in 20 festivals day:
Equip #
Repeatable Open, Gold star 20: Attach a target attachment card, with Gold Cost equal to the amount you paid, from your hand to your target Personality. Sometimes “Equip” is used as an effect in card text. This means that the effects of the Equip action are activated, and the card’s Gold Cost is checked against the amount paid for the original action. If the original action did not give the opportunity to pay Gold, then before the card is attached, its Gold Cost must be paid or the attachment fails. The original action may modify any of the rules of the Equip procedure; for example, it may Equip a card “ignoring cost.” Effects that merely “attach” a card do not invoke the Equip procedure or action.
Targeting # Targeting is a special kind of choice that involves designating one or more cards or other game entities (such as a Province or player). Targets are chosen at an early step of the Action Sequence, and targeting is carried out based on these choices, with any intervening changes, in the actions’ resolution step. The word “target” must appear for the procedure to be considered targeting — just “choosing” something is not targeting
Temple of serenity: Battle, , w: Equip a Spell to your target opposed Shugenja for 2 less Gold. Gain 1 Honor, or 2 Honor if the target is defending.
If do not invoke equip procedure, an not appear the Word TARGET in the action. Can i play this battle if i dont have a spell in my hand and gain 2 honor with my defending shugenja?
Thanks
As of Twenty Festivals, all abilities that say to Equip an attachment target the attachment.