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, 9 May 2008
I have gone through the search engine and had trouble identifying the answer to my question.
if I have Shugeja A attacking province A and Samurai B at province B can I resolve province B first and play cleansing spirit to attach a follower from the discard pile to samurai B. I dont see this conflict with rule of presense because the action is coming fro my hand and the effect/ result is finishing at the current battle.
Cleansing Spirit Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed Shugenja or Monks: Attach a target discarded Item or Follower you own to one of your target Personalities, reducing its Gold Cost by the Personality’s Force until it attaches.
thanks in advance and sorry if i missed it in the advance search "area"
scrylla
Alex Jones (rules official), 9 May 2008
I have gone through the search engine and had trouble identifying the answer to my question.
if I have Shugeja A attacking province A and Samurai B at province B can I resolve province B first and play cleansing spirit to attach a follower from the discard pile to samurai B. I dont see this conflict with rule of presense because the action is coming fro my hand and the effect/ result is finishing at the current battle.
Cleansing Spirit Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed Shugenja or Monks: Attach a target discarded Item or Follower you own to one of your target Personalities, reducing its Gold Cost by the Personality’s Force until it attaches.
thanks in advance and sorry if i missed it in the advance search "area"
scrylla
This doesn't satisfy the Rule of Location:
"Any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action."
Both the targeted Shugenja and the targeted Samurai, since they're in play and hence in units, must be at the current battlefield. The targeted Item or Follower isn't in play, so it's not in a unit, so the Rule of Location doesn't apply to it.