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, 15 August 2007
Hi !
I have a couple of questions about terrains.
1. In the glossary, it is written "If a Terrain leaves play, its effects with a duration end. This is not negation of those effects (that is, even effects that can not be negated do not apply any more).". There is nothing about what happens to "instantaneous" effects when a terrain leaves play. So in a situation where a player plays, for instance Encircled Terrain, and then, the terrain is destroyed. Would that mean that under SE rules, the effect of Encircled Terrain would still take effect ? It's not an effect with a duration, just a delayed effect waiting for both players to pass to happen.
2. If there's an Encircled Terrain in my discard pile and I play Unshakable to play the action of Encircled Terrain. Will it do anything ? I mean, have an effect on the battle
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 15 August 2007
(I)n a situation where a player plays, for instance Encircled Terrain, and then, the terrain is destroyed. Would that mean that under SE rules, the effect of Encircled Terrain would still take effect?
No. Encircled Terrain has a delayed effect that depends on the terrain being in play.l
If there's an Encircled Terrain in my discard pile and I play Unshakable to play the action of Encircled Terrain. Will it do anything?
No, because Encircled Terrain only has delayed effects, and an action ends before that. http://rules.l5r.com/Abilities_and_acti ... ction_ends