Kaiu Shiro and Suitengu's Surge

L5R CCG Rules board, 30 May 2007

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, 30 May 2007

Kaiu Shiro

Your Hero Personalities have Yu +1 and a minimum Yu of 3.

Once per phase, after another player's action resolved which destroyed one of your Personalities: Destroy a target Follower, or a target Personality without Followers, with Force less than or equal to your Personality's Yu value; if during a battle, the target must be in the enemy army.

Suitengu's Surge

Reaction: After an action targets a unit you control, bow this Shugenja: Target the unit. Remove it from the game, preserving bowed status and all attachments, including tokens. Its owner returns it to the game in that state after the next turn begins, in his home under his control, without considering it to be entering play.

Question: Can a player Surge a personality who has been targeted by the reaction ability of Kaiu Shiro? The players keep arguing who's right so I thought I'd ask here for confirmation.

Thank You.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 30 May 2007

Can a player Surge a personality who has been targeted by the reaction ability of Kaiu Shiro

Where is "Reaction" printed on Kaiu Shiro?

If it doesn't say "Reaction," it's not an action. Which is what Suitengu's Surge looks for.