Tsuruchi Etsui Exp. and Death After Life

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 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, 22 September 2007

During a game against a Spider clan player I bringed Tsuruchi Etsui Exp. into play and targeted one of his Personalities (Daigotsu for example). But during my opponent's turn he user Hired Killer to kill Etsui and then attacked me with Daigotsu and other Spider personalities. During this attack he used Death After Life to bring Etsui to his side of the battle. What will happen then? Will Etsui efects still apply even if he came back from the dead?

What if after he brings Etsui I send Daigotsu home, can he come back to battle by any means that does not envolve killing or bowing Etsui?

Tsuruchi Etsui

Once per game, after Etsui enters play or overlays: You may target a Personality. Until the end of the game, he cannot assign or move to battlefields unless Etsui is bowed or out of play.

Death After Life

Reaction: After one of your Personalities is destroyed during battle: Lose 5 Honor. Target a dead Personality in your discard pile, or in any discard pile if you are a Spider Clan player. Permanently give him Shadowlands and Undead. Bring him into play in your current army, ignoring restrictions (paying all costs).

[Mod edit: Slang, typos. -ZF]

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 22 September 2007

Tsuruchi Etsui Exp. into play and targeted one of his Personalities (Daigotsu for example). But during my opponent's turn he user Hired Killer to kill Etsui and then attacked me with Daigotsu and other Spider personalities. During this attack he used Death After Life to bring Etsui to his side of the battle. What will happen then?

Could you be more specific?

Will Etsui effects still apply even if he came back from the dead?

That is, "Do cards 'remember' things when they've been out of play?" Yes, unless they were also face-down. See http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Tracking_rule

What if after he brings Etsui I send Daigotsu home, can he come back to battle by any means that does not envolve killing or bowing Etsui?

Too broad to say definitively, but probably not.