Isawa Natsune, Asako Togama

L5R CCG Rules board, 27 November 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, 27 November 2009

Isawa Natsune: Phoenix Clan Librarian. Shugenja Natsune may hold any number of spells. Natsune may not bow to produce spell effects. All spells being attached to Natsune have their gold cost reduced by four.

Phoenix Clan Scribe. Shugenja May not bow to produce spell effects. Limited: Bow to retrieve a spell from any player's discard pile and attach it to Togama. Cost must be paid normally. Togama may not retrieve any spell card more than once.

Do the bolded texts mean that they are uncapable of paying the costs of a spell that has "bow this shugenja" as a cost or that they may waive the cost of bowing? Thank you in advance.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 27 November 2009

Do the bolded texts mean that they are uncapable of paying the costs of a spell that has "bow this shugenja" as a cost or that they may waive the cost of bowing?

The former.