Otomo Shishi & Famous Bazaar

L5R CCG Rules board, 19 March 2009 to 20 March 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, 19 March 2009

I purchase a Famous Bazaar and refill its province with a face-up Otomo Shishi. What is Shishi's gold cost?

Otomo Shishi Unaligned Economic Advisor. Toturi's Army When you bring a Holding into play, if Shishi is face-up in one of your Provinces, Shishi costs 0 Gold until the turn ends.

Famous Bazaar Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. After this card enters play from a province: Refill the province face-up.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 20 March 2009

I purchase a Famous Bazaar and refill its province with a face-up Otomo Shishi. What is Shishi's gold cost?

Otomo Shishi Unaligned Economic Advisor. Toturi's Army When you bring a Holding into play, if Shishi is face-up in one of your Provinces, Shishi costs 0 Gold until the turn ends.

Famous Bazaar Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. After this card enters play from a province: Refill the province face-up.

Shishi's cost is not reduced for having purchased the Famous Bazaar.

Until such time as an erratum can bring older cards like him in line with newer ones, wherein his triggered (essentially) trait would have a more appropriate "After" timing, you should play it as it reads. That is, "When" you bring a Holding into play would precede Bazaar's "After" timing, and it would be too late for Shishi to trigger in your example.