since I can target myself with "Coward!", can I play "lies, lies, lies..." while I have a "coward!" in the discard pile?
Lies, lies, lies... and coward!
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since I can target myself with "Coward!", can I play "lies, lies, lies..." while I have a "coward!" in the discard pile?
Maybe overlooking something obvious, but in looking through the rules wiki, particularly http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Choices, but I can't find any current rule that a card with honor loss as an optional or conditional effect is considered a card that causes an honor loss. So the following is tentative.
There are three answers to the question, "Does this card cause an honor loss?": Yes, no, and maybe. Lies, Lies, Lies... looks for cards where the answer is "Yes." Conditional or optional effects give an answer of "Maybe," so Lies, Lies, Lies... ignores them.
More news on the above.
"A card that causes an Honor loss" will include costs and effects of actions printed on the card.
Stay tuned.
And one last clarification: The Honor losses have to be unconditional (i.e., not dependent on a player choice or outcome of an action, etc.).