Pekkle no Oni ??

L5R CCG Rules board, 7 August 2007

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A player, 7 August 2007

I am new but: how exactly Pekkle no Oni is supposed to act ?? Do i get 3 honor points for second and third Peekle but not first ? Or do i get 3 honor points every round after the first, when she lays at the table ??

Martin Lund (rules official), 7 August 2007

After the first time each turn Pekkle enters play: Gain 3 Honor.

Remember that when a card refers to itself by name it means "this card," not "any card with this same name."

References to the card’s title, or to a shortened form of the title in the case of Personalities, (such as, “Mareshi” as short for “Mirumoto Mareshi”), refer to the card itself. These references change in a copied ability; see Copy.

Such references by title refer only to that copy of the card, not to any other copy that might exist, unless they use wording such as “a Mirumoto Mareshi” or “a copy of Mirumoto Mareshi.”

Each Pekkle can trigger once per turn. No Pekkle can trigger more than once. So no matter how many times you bring the same copy of Pekkle into play in a turn, the most the one Pekkle can give you is 3 Honor. 3 Pekkles = 9 Honor.

This might seem kind of silly, but there are older L5R cards that might remove Pekkle from the game and then return it to play in the same turn. This could potentially lead to a single Pekkle entering play 3 or 4 times in a turn - and that's not something the Designers wanted to see happen - hence the "Once per turn," clause on the entering play trait.