Kamoko's Avatar gives a +1F bonus to your other Cavalry cards. If she would be removed from battle, would this bonus last or dissipate like a terrain's?
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Kamoko's Avatar
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Kamoko's Avatar gives a +1F bonus to your other Cavalry cards. If she would be removed from battle, would this bonus last or dissipate like a terrain's?
Those Force bonuses last until the end of turn even if the Personality created by Kamoko's Avatar leaves play or moves away from the current battlefield.
Although Kamoko's Avatar's card looks like a Spirit Personality card, actually it is an Action card with a battle ability as indicated by its trait. When you resolve it, you create a Spirit Personality in your army at the current battlefield, then your other Cavalry cards there each gain +1F. Those Force bonuses doesn't depend on the presence of the created Personality: they normally last until the end of turn, like any other Force bonuses from an action which duration is not specified.
You might have been mistaken because maybe you use the card "Kamoko's Avatar" you've just played to represent the created Personality like most Unicorn players I know, so you may think those effects come from that Personality. This would be wrong: those effects comes from the Battle action on Kamoko's Avatar and this copy shouldn't be used to represent the created Personality because it is an Action card so technically it lies in your discard pile after its action ends; moreover your opponent may be confused because the 8 Gold Cost is a cost of the Action card, not of the created Spirit card whose Gold Cost is zero.