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A player, 21 October 2009
Will my The Last One be destroyed by having 0 Chi because of Fosuta's action's effect?
Thanks!
The Last One Open: Target your Personality: Destroy all of your other Personalities. If this destroyed at least four Personalities, permanently give your targeted Personality +4F, and until the end of the game, negate effects of other player's actions that bow, dishonor, move, or destroy him.
Isawa Fosuta (Experienced) Maho Open: Bow Fosuta: Lose 6 Honor. While Fosuta remains bowed, you may negate his straightening and, at the start of each turn, you may target a Personality and give him a -1F/-1C Curse token. After the next time this game Fosuta straightens or leaves play, destroy all Curse tokens.
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A player, 21 October 2009
Will my The Last One be destroyed by having 0 Chi because of Fosuta's action's effect?
Yes.
If the Personality who performed The Last One gets enough Curse tokens from Fosuta's effect to reduce his Chi to zero, he is destroyed for having zero Chi despite The Last One, because a negation effect must be continuous or it must specifically refers to the zero Chi rule in order to negate such a destruction (see below).
Negating conditional ongoing occurrences: "Special rules apply to the prevention of Personality destruction from zero Chi [...]. Ongoing and instantaneous effects that prevent destruction [...] will not prevent destruction from such an effect. Only a continuous prevention effect [...], or an effect that specifically refers to the zero Chi rule [...] can overcome the Personality's destruction."
Please use the search function before asking new questions: see "Last One and Chi Death".