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A player, 7 June 2008
* Political Reaction: When paying a cost of discarding the Imperial Favor, target and bow a Personality you control: This action pays that cost. Reaction: Before an Event resolves: Negate its effects.
In Lotus Edition format, the card was entirely considered as Political (referring to the Lotus Rulebook p.24-25). With the new rule about the keywords, is the second reaction still political ?
* Samurai Rulebook p. 22 : Some abilities have one or more keywords before the designator, such as “Political Limited:” or “Kiho Battle:” Ability keywords are treated as separate single words. These keywords, and any keywords of the card itself, apply to the ability, the action it creates, and its effects. For example, an action has the keyword Fire if the word “Fire” is one of the card’s keywords at the top of the text box, or if the “Fire” keyword appears before the designator, as in “Fire Battle:”.
* Under Special Circumstances: Keywords (p. 54), alter the paragraph to:
A reference to a "(Keyword) Spell," a "(Keyword) card," or a "(Keyword) Action card" can also refer to a Spell or Action card with an ability that has that keyword. A Spell also counts as having the keywords of all its abilities for the purpose of things that count keywords on cards. Spells or Action cards with a keyword on one ability do not necessarily have that keyword on all their other abilities.
Thanks you very much for answering to Legacy format question.
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Alex Jones (rules official), 7 June 2008
* Political Reaction: When paying a cost of discarding the Imperial Favor, target and bow a Personality you control: This action pays that cost. Reaction: Before an Event resolves: Negate its effects.
In Lotus Edition format, the card was entirely considered as Political (referring to the Lotus Rulebook p.24-25). With the new rule about the keywords, is the second reaction still political ?
* Samurai Rulebook p. 22 : Some abilities have one or more keywords before the designator, such as “Political Limited:” or “Kiho Battle:” Ability keywords are treated as separate single words. These keywords, and any keywords of the card itself, apply to the ability, the action it creates, and its effects. For example, an action has the keyword Fire if the word “Fire” is one of the card’s keywords at the top of the text box, or if the “Fire” keyword appears before the designator, as in “Fire Battle:”.
* Under Special Circumstances: Keywords (p. 54), alter the paragraph to:
A reference to a "(Keyword) Spell," a "(Keyword) card," or a "(Keyword) Action card" can also refer to a Spell or Action card with an ability that has that keyword. A Spell also counts as having the keywords of all its abilities for the purpose of things that count keywords on cards. Spells or Action cards with a keyword on one ability do not necessarily have that keyword on all their other abilities.
Thanks you very much for answering to Legacy format question.
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No.
"Spells or Action cards with a keyword on one ability do not necessarily have that keyword on all their other abilities."