Modifying card faces

L5R CCG Rules board, 18 September 2007

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, 18 September 2007

I have encountered a problem recently when building my decks. Apparently, all of my oni for this set got annoying dark blue borders and are Crab aligned. I've been replacing their art appropriately, giving them back their oni likeness. As long as I only modify the art of the cards, and do so in such a way as to not mark them, leaving all game relevent text unaffected and with consistent art replacement (not using different images for the same peep) can I play with these cards?

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Zen Faulkes (rules official), 18 September 2007

I have encountered a problem recently when building my decks. Apparently, all of my oni for this set got annoying dark blue borders and are Crab aligned. I've been replacing their art appropriately, giving them back their oni likeness. As long as I only modify the art of the cards, and do so in such a way as to not mark them, leaving all game relevent text unaffected and with consistent art replacement (not using different images for the same peep) can I play with these cards?

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More a tournament judge question.