Will has a gold cost of *, and reads Dark Virtue Battle: If there are any enemy units at the current battlefield, target a dead Samurai Personality you own: Bring him into play there, paying 2 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements. Private Traders produce 2 gold, or 3 for an action card. Seiden Sanzo produces 2 gold, or 3 for a hero. If I bring a hero into play using the action card Will, how much gold towards the cost will the Private Trader make? If I bring a hero into play using the action card Will, how much gold towards the cost will the Seiden Sanzo make?
Will
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.
Will has a gold cost of *, and reads Dark Virtue Battle: If there are any enemy units at the current battlefield, target a dead Samurai Personality you own: Bring him into play there, paying 2 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements. Private Traders produce 2 gold, or 3 for an action card. Seiden Sanzo produces 2 gold, or 3 for a hero. If I bring a hero into play using the action card Will, how much gold towards the cost will the Private Trader make? If I bring a hero into play using the action card Will, how much gold towards the cost will the Seiden Sanzo make?
http://rules.l5r.com/Rulings_W#Will: "The gold paid is the cost of the Personality, not Will."