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A player, 10 August 2009
I encountered this situation with a Mantis Clan friend. He has 3 personalities, with different followers attached. He uses Okitsugu's Recon action, then attacks. I defend with my personalities.
Now, he uses the Follower's ability(because of Okitsugu) to kill some of my peeps. After resolving his fourth range attack, can he play Ring of Water?
References:
Ring of Water
After you successfully resolve your fourth or later Battle action from cards with different titles in one battle: You may put this card into play from your hand. Battle: Bow this card or discard it from your hand: Move one of your target units home or to a battlefield with one or more enemy units. If the unit moved, straighten it.
Yoritomo Okitsugu
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Scout Battle: Ranged 3 Attack. Recon Limited: Target a Province. While they remain at its battlefield, your Followers whose units assigned there have the ability, "Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 3 Attack."
I argued with him that the ability given by Okitsugu, even though from different card titles, was the one responsible (as it counts only for 1 action). He said otherwise.
Thank you for your answers.
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A player, 10 August 2009
After resolving his fourth range attack, can he play Ring of Water?
Ring of Water requires to resolve four or more successful Battle actions from cards with different titles in one battle.
Glossary, From: "Some things check to see if costs, effects, actions, targeting, or other game procedures come “from” a given source. The source is the card that the effect, action or targeting is printed on, or the rulebook if it is printed there. There are three exceptions: 1. Targeting and destruction by Ranged Attacks come from the card that created the Ranged Attack, not the rulebook. 2. A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi comes from the cost or effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such cost or effect. 3. Costs and effects of traits and abilities given to other cards, copied from other cards, or on created cards, come from the card they are currently on."Here the third exception applies: when a Follower performs the Battle action that Yoritomo Okitsugu's Recon action gave to this card, this Ranged Attack action comes from the card it is currently on, the Follower itself. As a consequence, such Ranged Attack actions from Followers with different titles count to put the Ring of Water into play if they are successful.