Final Sacrifice vs targets 'at any location'

L5R CCG Rules board, 15 May 2015 to 19 May 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, 15 May 2015

e.g.

Battle: Target your unbowed attacking Personality. Move a target enemy Personality at any location to the current battlefield. Straighten him as he moves.

Interrupt: Target your Yojimbo. The action must target him, if legal.

All actions a player takes in battle – Battle actions, Engage actions, or even Interrupts during a battle -- follow these additional rules: ..

Rules of Location: ... 2. To be legally targeted by an action during battle, any cards in a unit must be at the current battlefield.

I think this means that Final Sacrifice can only target a unit at the current battle. So if Isawa X and Shiba Y are at home, and Shiba Z is defending, and the attacker plays Determined Challenge on Isawa X, Final Sacrifice can only target Shiba Z (a legal, if useless target for Determined Challenge) but could not target Shiba Y to cause him to be moved into the battle. Correct?

And therefore,

Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai and target a Personality in the Defender's home. Straighten his unit. The Defender may move him to the current battlefield. If he chose not to, he loses 2 Honor, dishonor the Personality, and you may draw two cards.

While nothing stops you playing Final Sacrifice in response to Coward, it will never do anything, since Coward can only target units at home and Final Sacrifice can only target units at the current battlefield. Correct?

Alex Jones (rules official), 19 May 2015

e.g.

I think this means that Final Sacrifice can only target a unit at the current battle. So if Isawa X and Shiba Y are at home, and Shiba Z is defending, and the attacker plays Determined Challenge on Isawa X, Final Sacrifice can only target Shiba Z (a legal, if useless target for Determined Challenge) but could not target Shiba Y to cause him to be moved into the battle. Correct?

And therefore,

While nothing stops you playing Final Sacrifice in response to Coward, it will never do anything, since Coward can only target units at home and Final Sacrifice can only target units at the current battlefield. Correct?

The Yojimbo is targeted by Final Sacrifice, so - if played during a battle - he must be at the current battlefield. This means he is not a legal target for actions which only target cards in your home, so the redirection will fail.

However, if the action being Interrupted targets a card "at any location", then the Yojimbo is a valid target, and the redirection will work.

On: Final Sacrifice, Determined Challenge, Coward!