Can Togashi Kisu target personalities in provinces so that you'll gain honor additional honor or force your opponent to gain one less if they pay for gold for a personality?
Togashi Kisu and Provinces
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Can Togashi Kisu target personalities in provinces so that you'll gain honor additional honor or force your opponent to gain one less if they pay for gold for a personality?
The short answer is, "No."
The long answer is that effects only work on cards that are in play or in a temporary focusing, entering play, or resolution area unless the effect specifically tells you that it works on something in a Deck, Discard Pile, or other out-of-play area. Basically, unless the card is in-play or in a some sort of active game area (like Focusing something in a duel or playing out an Action card) it is pretty much inert.
Kisu just targets Personalities, not Dead Personalities or Personalities in Decks or Provinces - so he can't have any effect on Personalities in such places.
For a full description of what effects work where and any important exceptions, check out this section of the Comprehensive Rules.
On: Togashi Kisu