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If an Action, like Hired Killer, explicitly destroys a personality (not the unit), are the personalities attachements considered to be destroyed by the action or by a rulebook effect?
Title Hired Killer Text Limited: Pay Gold equal to the target’s unit’s Gold Cost plus 2: Lose 3 Honor. Destroy a target Personality.
If an Action, like Hired Killer, explicitly destroys a personality (not the unit), are the personalities attachements considered to be destroyed by the action or by a rulebook effect?
Title Hired Killer Text Limited: Pay Gold equal to the target’s unit’s Gold Cost plus 2: Lose 3 Honor. Destroy a target Personality.
By a rulebook effect.
See Attachments: When a Personality leaves play, all his attached cards leave play in the same manner as he did. This leaving play is a rulebook effect contingent on the effect that took the Personality out of play, so the attachments are destroyed "for" (as a consequence of) the original effect, but not "by" the original effect.