Following this post: Just to make sure, due to "costs changed after announcement" rule the player of the misdirected Hired killer does have the choice of not paying the cost, correct? Also, if the cost is not plaid due to this (or any other effect that changed the cost, making the player unable or unwilling to play it) and the effect of the card is not coming into play (i.e. not items or follower cards) the card returns to hand, as the play is now illegal, right?
Misdirection - Targeting Clarification (2)
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.
Just to make sure, due to "costs changed after announcement" rule the player of the misdirected Hired killer does have the choice of not paying the cost, correct?
No. The cost didn't change. The cost can't be determined until targeting occurs. Misdirection is played before that.