Celestial Refill/Border Keep part deux

L5R CCG Rules board, 24 September 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, 24 September 2009

Taka wrote: If I use Border Keep's action to refill all four of my provinces, and a Celestial pops up in any of provinces 1 through 3 and enters play immediately, do I refill the Celestial's province face-down immediately? Face-up? Or do I continue to refill my provinces face-up (as per Border Keep) and then refill the Celestial province face-down?

Bayushi Loïc wrote (answer):

Refill all your provinces, turn all cards face-up, bring all revealed Celestial cards into play simultaneously (see the rulesheet in starters from Path of the Destroyers), refill their provinces face-down.

As written in the FAQ, Border Keep's action refills all provinces face-up simultaneously. As my esteemed colleague explained there, when a card "refills a province face-up", its entering the province and turning face-up are simultaneous. At last Border Keep's effect that refills the provinces face-up only applies to the refilling from its own effect, not to any refilling that happens in the chosen provinces while the action resolves. As a consequence, if you use Border Keep's action to refill your four provinces, all of them are refilled at the same time by a face-up card. If any of them are Celestial cards, they enter play simultaneously and their provinces are refilled normally (face-down).

OK; the blue text is where my question originates: What happens with Events assuming multiple events turn over simultaneously?

Thanks in advance. G6

A player, 24 September 2009

What happens with Events assuming multiple events turn over simultaneously?

Simultaneously nothing happens in all those provinces, because Border Keep refills them during the Action Phase. The answer is the same for Regions: nothing happens, they do not enter play. The player can choose to discard face-up Events or Regions from his provinces at the end of his Dynasty Phase like any other face-up card.

Card types, Events: "An Event only resolves by being turned face-up during the Events Phase. "