Ruined City + Doomed Intentions

L5R CCG Rules board, 28 September 2007 to 29 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, 28 September 2007

I am attacked by my opponent while I am playing out of The Ruined City. If I move one of my Spider Clan personalities into the battle via Doomed Intentions, am I able to use the granted stronghold ability as the additional Battle actiion from Doomed Intentions?

Is the ability granted to my Spider Clan personalities via Ruined City considered to be printed on my Spider Clan personalities?

Ruined City: Your Spider Clan Personalities have the ability, "Battle: Bow a target unit with zero total Force or with the lowest non-zero total Force (including ties) among all units at the current battlefield."

Doomed Intentions: Battle: If there are enemy units at the current battlefield: Move one of your target units there. If it moved, straighten it. If you are the Defender, take an additional Battle action printed on a card in the unit.

Chris Fuchs (rules official), 29 September 2007

Means the same as “base,” even on cards that do not literally have their base stats printed.

Granted abilities, such as the Ruined City ability, are not 'printed' on each of your personalities.