Ambush + Bayushi Saya

L5R CCG Rules board, 18 January 2009

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, 18 January 2009

Ambush Limited: Target one of your unbowed Personalities: Create a battlefield (not at any province). Assign your Personality to attack there. Assign another player’s target Personality to defend there, even if bowed. No other units may move there. Fight a battle there. After it ends, lose 5 Honor.

Bayushi Saya Political Open: Target a Personality. After the next time this turn his controller assigns him or an action resolves that he performed, his controller loses Honor equal to his Personal Honor, then he is dishonored.

(Emphasis mine)

If I Saya my opponent's personality, and then Ambush that personality, does he become dishonored for assigning?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 18 January 2009

If I Saya my opponent's personality, and then Ambush that personality, does he become dishonored for assigning?

No, for the reasons you underlined.

In the Ambush, YOU are assigning the Personality, not his controller (as in Saya's text).

On: Bayushi Saya, Bayushi Saya