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hey
we have a discussion going on and the question is weather stone breaker can be challanged with determination or not
stone breaker:
Nonhuman • Siege • Unique Can not attach Items. Can not challenge or be challenged. Is not destroyed for having 0 Chi. Has -6F while it has no unbowed Followers. Battle: If Stone Breaker is bowed, bow a Follower in its unit: Straighten Stone Breaker.
i really would appreciate a long explaination because i would like to understand why it is how it is
thanks a lot
(Can Stone Breaker) be challanged with determination(?)
It can.
http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_C#Cannot: "When found in card text, and when referring to a type of cost or effect (e.g., bowing, Force bonuses), 'cannot' (or 'can not') means that a certain type of effect or cost is negated whenever it occurs."
Exceptions are important, so let's check those:
"EXCEPTION: In card text, when referring to entering play, targeting, attaching, using a trait, or taking an action, 'cannot' is a restriction on the legality of that thing in the first place, not negation of its effects." Challenging is neither entering play, targeting, attaching, using a trait, or taking an action, so none of those exceptions apply.