Determination + Extra Actions

L5R CCG Rules board, 5 April 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, 5 April 2009

Suppose I attack my opponent and play Sneak Attack. As my Sneak Attack action, I play Superior Strategist and use Determination with it to prevent it from being negated. Does Determination also prevent the effects of the card played from being negated, as the card played from Sup. Strat. is an effect of the Sup. Strat. itself, which was Determinationed?

Suppose I use Superior Strategist, with Determination, to get Unshakable from my Fate Deck to get another card in my discard pile, are they all safe from negation due to the original Determination?

I did a search for this, but didn't see an answer.

Relevant Texts

Determination Dark Virtue Reaction: After you announce an action, target one of your Samurai: The action cannot have its effects negated or have its targeting changed. After the action destroys any Personality, remove him from the game.

Superior Strategist Tactical Battle: Target one of your Tacticians: Search your Fate deck for an Action card with a Battle ability. You may take an additional Battle action to use one of its Battle abilities; if you do not, discard it.

Unshakable Tactical Battle: Target an Action card in your discard pile. Play it for one of its Battle abilities as an additional action. Remove this card and the target card from the game, even if out of play, after that action ends. (Observe restrictions on the ability's number of uses, such as the default "once per turn.")

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 5 April 2009

(I) play Sneak Attack. As my Sneak Attack action, I play Superior Strategist and use Determination with it to prevent it from being negated. Does Determination also prevent the effects of the card played from being negated(?)

No. The effect of being given an extra action is the opportunity to use that action, not the action itself.