An interesting question came up last night, a scorpion player had a Diplomatic Apprentice attached to one of his personalities. A crane player tried to Hired Killer this personality and wanted to claim the 2 gold cost reduction a Diplomatic Apprentice gives scorpion and crane players in the cost of the hired killer. Was he right in this assumption? Would that Hired Killer cost 2 less gold because the Diplomatic Apprentice was attached to a scorpion players personality or would it cost 2 less gold because it was a crane player performing the Hired Killer?
Hired Killer on a Diplomatic Apprentice
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.
An interesting question came up last night, a scorpion player had a Diplomatic Apprentice attached to one of his personalities. A crane player tried to Hired Killer this personality and wanted to claim the 2 gold cost reduction a Diplomatic Apprentice gives scorpion and crane players in the cost of the hired killer. Was he right in this assumption? Would that Hired Killer cost 2 less gold because the Diplomatic Apprentice was attached to a scorpion players personality or would it cost 2 less gold because it was a crane player performing the Hired Killer?
http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_G: "Gold Cost, when referred to as a card’s stat, is a stat that initially determines the amount of Gold needed to pay to bring the card into play."
The Diplomatic Apprentice text refers to a Gold Cost stat, so it always applies, not just during attachment.
(Clarified.)
Would that Hired Killer cost 2 less gold because the Diplomatic Apprentice was attached to a scorpion players personality or would it cost 2 less gold because it was a crane player performing the Hired Killer?"
http://rules.l5r.com/Physically_marked_ ... es#Control: "A card’s text (such as, “Lose 3 Honor” or “You can not take Political actions”) is to be read from the perspective of its controller while the card is in play."
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