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, 31 March 2015
This is something of a strange question.
There has been a photo that shows the latest printing of School of Wizardry in the 20 Festivals Phoenix starter deck is actually printed with the title 'School of Wizardy'. As the card title is different, it is technically a new card, but not one that is listed in Oracle. As I understand the primacy of Oracle, a card not in Oracle is not legal, but this would make the misprinted cards illegal (which affects new players, sealed deck events etc). I also assume that School of Wizardy is not meant to be a new card (players are not meant to be able to run six cards with "When paying for a Human Shugenja, he enters play for 0 Gold." in their decks).
The obvious question is: what is the status of School of Wizardy?
More generally though, (as this is clearly a misprint), what is the specific interaction between physical cards and Oracle, and how can obvious issues (like the example above) be resolved within the framework of card legalities*? Oracle was a huge step forward for the game and a solution will hopefully retain Oracle's primacy as the source for card legality and text.
*Without resorting to 'interesting' solutions, such as adding School of Wizardy to Oracle and adding an errata to make it the soul of School of Wizardry, as this would also require a change to the 'Soul of...' rule as well.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 31 March 2015
This is something of a strange question.
There has been a photo that shows the latest printing of School of Wizardry in the 20 Festivals Phoenix starter deck is actually printed with the title 'School of Wizardy'. As the card title is different, it is technically a new card, but not one that is listed in Oracle. As I understand the primacy of Oracle, a card not in Oracle is not legal, but this would make the misprinted cards illegal (which affects new players, sealed deck events etc). I also assume that School of Wizardy is not meant to be a new card (players are not meant to be able to run six cards with "When paying for a Human Shugenja, he enters play for 0 Gold." in their decks).
The obvious question is: what is the status of School of Wizardy?
More generally though, (as this is clearly a misprint), what is the specific interaction between physical cards and Oracle, and how can obvious issues (like the example above) be resolved within the framework of card legalities*? Oracle was a huge step forward for the game and a solution will hopefully retain Oracle's primacy as the source for card legality and text.
*Without resorting to 'interesting' solutions, such as adding School of Wizardy to Oracle and adding an errata to make it the soul of School of Wizardry, as this would also require a change to the 'Soul of...' rule as well.
School of Wizardy is the same card as School of Wizardry. This is the same as other cards with minor unintentional title changes, such as "Master Painter" vs "The Master Painter", "Charge" vs "Charge!" and "Market Place" vs "Marketplace".
We've added a note to Oracle; I'll see if we can get a redirect for searches on "School of Wizardy" as well.