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When you target a Crane samurai you own as per the stronghold's battle action, is it considered that he performed the action, even though the ranged attack came from MSD?
We believe this to be so but we would like clarification so that we can have a consensus.
Thanks.
When you target a Crane samurai you own as per the stronghold's battle action, is it considered that he performed the action(?)
http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_P-Q#Perform: "A Personality or Follower is performing an action if its controller is the player taking the action, and any of these things is true:
"The action comes from an ability on the Personality or Follower." Does not apply.
"The action comes from an ability on an Item or Spell in the Personality’s unit." Does not apply.
"The Personality or Follower was targeted by targeting in the ability’s constraints block (between the two colons)." Ding ding ding ding ding!
If it helps, think of the Crane in question as calling in an artillery strike from the castle's orbiting death-laser.
- Marty Lund Deputy Rules Monkey