Since Gifts and Favors specifically has a penalty for not finding it, thereby implying that it may be used without its presence in your deck, can you search for a Gifts and Favors in order to lose the game in a Samurai Edition Constructed tournament? Your deck does not contain Gifts and Favors, so it is not breaking deck construction rules, and Gifts and Favors' own action provides the ability to use it while you do not actually have one involved in the game.
Tournament Deck Construction and Gifts and Favors
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.
(C)an you search for a Gifts and Favors in order to lose the game in a Samurai Edition Constructed tournament?
Isn't easier just to concede?
Or play really bad?
Why bother with an arcane ruling on a card that hasn't been printed for a few years? What's the point?
On: Gifts and Favors