Your true nature cost

L5R CCG Rules board, 2 June 2015 to 3 June 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, 2 June 2015

Having some conflict resolving the cost of Your True Nature.

To me it reads that item destruction costs 3 additional gold. Not a discount. If this is in error could you explain the wording/text format so I understand?

Alex Jones (rules official), 3 June 2015

Having some conflict resolving the cost of Your True Nature.

To me it reads that item destruction costs 3 additional gold. Not a discount. If this is in error could you explain the wording/text format so I understand?

Your True Nature reads: Battle/Open (*): Destroy a target attachment with Gold Cost less than or equal to the amount paid, or the amount paid plus three if the target is an Item.

If you're targeting an item, this is effectively: Battle/Open (*): Target an Item with Gold Cost less than or equal to the amount paid plus three. Destroy it.

If you pay 2 gold, then "the amount paid plus three" is 5 gold, so you can destroy an Item costing 5g or less.