Few Against Many vs. Duels

L5R CCG Rules board, 29 August 2007

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A player, 29 August 2007

My aplogies if this has been asked recently; I could find no mention of it using the search function.

Can the current version of Few Against Many prevent a personality's destruction when they lose a duel?

FAM states it prevents destruction from an opponent's card effect, but dying from losing a duel is now the default result, and is a rulebook effect, isn't it?

Chris Fuchs (rules official), 29 August 2007

My aplogies if this has been asked recently; I could find no mention of it using the search function.

Can the current version of Few Against Many prevent a personality's destruction when they lose a duel?

FAM states it prevents destruction from an opponent's card effect, but dying from losing a duel is now the default result, and is a rulebook effect, isn't it?

There are no longer default duel results, due to confusion of this type during previous arcs.

Samurai Edition legal duels that destroys the loser will have that result as part of the card text so that it is clear that the destruction is the result of a card effect.