Blade of Hubris + Yarijutsu

L5R CCG Rules board, 28 February 2008 to 3 March 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, 28 February 2008

I think I know the answer to the question but I'd like to get an official ruling on this. If my Blade of Hubris has already a +1F token on it due to its own trait then can I bow it for Yarijutsu to destroy a Personality with 6 Force? Thank you!

Martin Lund (rules official), 3 March 2008

Battle: Bow one of your Weapons at the current battlefield: Destroy a target Personality opposing it with no Weapons, no Armor, and Force less than the Focus Value plus Force bonus of your Weapon.

Before your End Phase ends: If this Personality assigned this turn, gain 1 Honor and permanently give this card a +1F token; if he did not, lose 1 Honor.

The Blade of Hubris gives itself a +1F token, making its total Force Bonus go from +2 to +3. Its focus value is 4, so the total of its Focus Value plus Force bonus would be 7.