Smoke and Mirrors and Fall on Your Knees

If I fall my opponent's Smoke and Mirrors, do they get another chance to focus or is it my turn?

I don't think you can fall on your knees your opponent's smoke and mirrors, you can only keen eye.

Remember that if it's a Limited Duel, you can not fall Smoke or anything else.

A cancelled action is considered to have never happened.

So (provided you're in the battle action segment) if you Fall a Smoke then you continue play as if the Smoke didn't happen i.e. the player may focus as normal, try another Smoke, or anything else one would normally do on their opportunity to focus.

Were you to, say, Keen Eye it (which negates the effect) your opponent loses the Smoke and his chance to focus.

-Karl

if you Fall a Smoke then you continue play as if the Smoke didn't happen i.e. the player may focus as normal

Wrong. You have payed your chance of Focus as a COST to play Smoke.

No costs are refunded [DE Rulebook, Canceling Actions and Negating Effects]

Your opponent can focus or strike. You will lose the duel after Smoke is cancelled, normally.

Barring some ruling IP don't know of from the powers that be, I'd have to disagree. Pikachu is right in that a cancelled actions costs that have been paid prior to it's cancellation are not refunded. However, I see the "play instead of focusing" as a restriction to how you play it, similar to the cancellation of a "once per turn" ability. Since the cancelled action is never considered to have taken place at all, and Smoke and Mirrors lacks any text that would make me think that the restriction is a cost instead, I would say that they still have their chance to focus.

~My two cents

"Reaction: Play instead of focusing in a duel to discard your opponent's last focus card without effect. Draw a Fate card."

Pikachu is right in that costs from cancelled actions are not refunded. Also (as far as L5R is concerned ) usually the word "to" designates that the text before before the "to" is a cost.

So I think Pikachu's point is quite valid save for the fact that "paying" a "chance to focus" seems wonky. It's not the sort of thing it seems like one can pay, you know? This could be a case of the English on Smoke and Mirrors just being poorly chosen. It seems more like a play restriction than a cost, but we'll have to wait until someone official steps in.

-Karl