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A player, 22 May 2008
The Tale of Tsukuro (R) Cost: 0; Focus: 4. Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability: “Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield.”
Note that the underlined part is between the first colon (after the designator) and the second colon. This is what the rules define as "constraints block".
Constraints block
1. In an action, text between the two colons (that is, between the designator and the effects block) that can include conditions, costs, some (but not necessarily all) targeting, and triggers.
That means that the costs of The Tale of Tsukuro are: -Losing 8 Honor -Giving Shadowlands permanently to a target personality -Giving an ability permanently to that target
Is that correct?
EDIT Note: Please let me point that other cards that grant abilities to other cards use commas to separate the granted ability from the rest of the text. See Arrival of the Obsidian Champion as an example of this.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 22 May 2008
The Tale of Tsukuro (R) Cost: 0; Focus: 4. Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability: “Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield.”
Note that the underlined part is between the first colon (after the designator) and the second colon. This is what the rules define as "constraints block".
Constraints block
1. In an action, text between the two colons (that is, between the designator and the effects block) that can include conditions, costs, some (but not necessarily all) targeting, and triggers.
That means that the costs of The Tale of Tsukuro are: -Losing 8 Honor -Giving Shadowlands permanently to a target personality -Giving an ability permanently to that target
Is that correct?
EDIT Note: Please let me point that other cards that grant abilities to other cards use commas to separate the granted ability from the rest of the text. See Arrival of the Obsidian Champion as an example of this.
We had you covered 21 days ago, my friend.
http://rules.l5r.com/Rulings_T#The_Tale_of_Tsukuro "Reads, "The Tale of Tsukuro 0G 4FV Unique. Limited: Lose 8 Honor. Your target Personality permanently gains Shadowlands and the ability, "Battle: Move one or more of your target Shadowlands Personalities to the current battlefield." " [Minor correction, 1 May 2008; comma substituted for misprinted colon]"