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A player, 7 September 2008
Kiho Battle: Target one of your unbowed Shugenja or Monks: Attach a target discarded Item or Follower you own to one of your target Personalities, reducing its Gold Cost by the Personality's Force until it attaches
As far as I can see from the rulebook, only personalities can have a different status while in a discard pile (dead). Now my question regarding Cleansing Spirit is if it can bring back Items/Followers that have been destroyed and not discarded, as its cardtext requires. As a follow-up: Are cards, aside from personalities, that are in a discard pile, ever considered anything but 'discarded'?
Thank you!
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 7 September 2008
As a follow-up: Are cards, aside from personalities, that are in a discard pile, ever considered anything but 'discarded'?
No, they are not. So...
As far as I can see from the rulebook, only personalities can have a different status while in a discard pile (dead). Now my question regarding Cleansing Spirit is if it can bring back Items/Followers that have been destroyed and not discarded, as its cardtext requires.
You're correct about only Personalities in the discard having a potentially "non-discarded" status; Cleansing Spirit can attach any Item or Follower in the discard pile, whether it arrived there by being destroyed or not.
Thank you!
You're welcome!