Shiba Aikune and Self-Paying his ability

L5R CCG Rules board, 8 February 2008

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, 8 February 2008

Shiba Aikune (Experienced 3) Phoenix Clan • Samurai • Hero • Experienced 3 • Unique While Aikune is home or the only Personality in an army, he has +3F and other players' card effects cannot bow or move him. Battle: Any number of times per turn, destroy a Personality in Aikune's army: Destroy two target cards opposing Aikune with no attachments.

We were wondering if Aikune could destroy two opposing cards by destroying himself. I said no, because destroying himself is a cost, and by that, when it resolves the cards are no longer opposing Aikune. Unless it works differently... I remember it working like that at some point

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 8 February 2008

Shiba Aikune (Experienced 3): (Can he) destroy two opposing cards by destroying himself.

Yes. Targeting comes before costs.