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, 20 March 2015
Card Title: [url=http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8251,#hashid=63c68f81503282d58b987e7ced79ae9c,#cardcount=0]The Path of Wisdom[/url]
Text: Before your turn ends, if this Strategy is in your discard pile, put it in your hand.
My question is that If I have 9 cards in hand at the end of the turn, discard Path to Wisdom to lower my hand to 8, does this happen and then Path of Wisdom comes back to my hand or does Path of Wisdom's "before your turn ends" trigger happen BEFORE I have to discard down to 8?
Could I theoretically have 8 cards in hand, then get 3 from my discard to start my opponents turn with 11 cards in hand?
Thanks for taking the time as usual! You guys are great!
Banzai!
Jon Palmer (rules official), 23 March 2015
Card Title: [url=http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=8251,#hashid=63c68f81503282d58b987e7ced79ae9c,#cardcount=0]The Path of Wisdom[/url]
Text: Before your turn ends, if this Strategy is in your discard pile, put it in your hand.
My question is that If I have 9 cards in hand at the end of the turn, discard Path to Wisdom to lower my hand to 8, does this happen and then Path of Wisdom comes back to my hand or does Path of Wisdom's "before your turn ends" trigger happen BEFORE I have to discard down to 8?
Could I theoretically have 8 cards in hand, then get 3 from my discard to start my opponents turn with 11 cards in hand?
Thanks for taking the time as usual! You guys are great!
Banzai!
Discarding happens at the end of your turn, so any effects triggered before the end of your turn will need to be resolved prior to discarding. You'd have to bring The Path of Wisdom back to your hand, then discard down to 8 (but feel free to discard The Path of Wisdom again if you wish)