Recruiting Allies + Standing Fast

L5R CCG Rules board, 16 November 2008

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.

A player, 16 November 2008

Recruiting Allies Battle: If there are one or more enemy units at the current battlefield: Create three 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality cards in your army there. Remove them from the game after the battle ends.

Standing Fast Battle: Target one of your unbowed Samurai or Berserker Personalities: Target up to two units opposing him with a combined total Gold Cost less than his unit's total Gold Cost. Bow them. Destroy any cards in those units with 0 Gold Cost.

If I create little samurai guys with Recruiting Allies can 2 of them be destroyed if my opponent uses Standing Fast with a 4G cost person? Do my temporary samurai dudes have a gold cost?

Dan Jacobson (rules official), 16 November 2008

Recruiting Allies Battle: If there are one or more enemy units at the current battlefield: Create three 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality cards in your army there. Remove them from the game after the battle ends.

Standing Fast Battle: Target one of your unbowed Samurai or Berserker Personalities: Target up to two units opposing him with a combined total Gold Cost less than his unit's total Gold Cost. Bow them. Destroy any cards in those units with 0 Gold Cost.

If I create little samurai guys with Recruiting Allies can 2 of them be destroyed if my opponent uses Standing Fast with a 4G cost person? Do my temporary samurai dudes have a gold cost?

There is no printed cost of the Samurai personalities created by Recruiting Allies. Therefore, it defaults to zero. As long as your opponent has a Samurai or Berserker personality with greater than 0 gold cost opposing the Recruiting Allies, he may bow, and then destroy two of them with Standing Fast.