Wandering Sohei and The Path not Taken.

L5R CCG Rules board, 19 June 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, 19 June 2007

Recently my local organizers have talked of starting a series of Legacy format tournaments, when digging in my card files I stumbled across a the Kiho 'The Path not Taken' while contemplating something East Hub Port style with 'Wandering Sohei'

If I have 'Wandering Sohei' in play attached to 'Moshi Amika' Basic, a copy of 'The Path not Taken' in the fate discard pile and my opponent discards a 'Hired Killer', may I use the Sohei's trait to have Amika preform 'The Path not Taken' from the discard pile? If so, is this Kiho removed as per the Sohei's trait, or shuffled back in as per the Kiho itself, or is it the active players choice? Or something else entirely?

Also, with the current (and Samurai?) rules about hidden cards not retaining information, does this Kiho act as originally designed or do they revert to their original text once they shuffle back in to their decks?

Thanks,

Kazu.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 19 June 2007

If I have Wandering Sohei in play attached to Moshi Amika Basic, a copy of The Path not Taken in the fate discard pile and my opponent discards a Hired Killer, may I use the Sohei's trait to have Amika perform The Path not Taken from the discard pile?

Yes.

On: Wandering Sohei, Moshi Amika, Moshi Amika, Hired Killer

(I)s this Kiho removed as per the Sohei's trait(?)

Yes.

On: Wandering Sohei

(W)ith the current (and Samurai?) rules about hidden cards not retaining information, does this Kiho act as originally designed(?)

Yes.

On: Wandering Sohei