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, 28 June 2007
Ideal Conditions reads:
Until the end of the game, while any of your Scout cards are in a unit, they have the ability, "Battle: Move this unit to a battlefield at a province that a Recon action targeted this turn. If the unit moved, straighten it."
The SE Preview Rulebook, p. 29 reads:
There are three other limitations on abilities. . Abilities on bowed cards may not be used.
Now, assume I have a bowed Daidoji Murasaki located at a battlefield that is not the current one and a battle is currently going on at another of my Provinces targeted with a Recon Open action.
Would I be able to move Daidoji Murasaki into the battle and straighten her because the ability is printed on an unbowed Event card, or would I be unable to as the event appears to give the ability to an (in this case bowed) Scout card in a unit?
Thanks in advance.
Chris Fuchs (rules official), 28 June 2007
Ideal Conditions reads:
The SE Preview Rulebook, p. 29 reads:
Now, assume I have a bowed Daidoji Murasaki located at a battlefield that is not the current one and a battle is currently going on at another of my Provinces targeted with a Recon Open action.
Would I be able to move Daidoji Murasaki into the battle and straighten her because the ability is printed on an unbowed Event card, or would I be unable to as the event appears to give the ability to an (in this case bowed) Scout card in a unit?
Thanks in advance.
The event provides an ability to cards that meet its condition. The event itself does not have an ability. If a card granted this ability is bowed, it will not be able to use the ability.