Can you use Kurogane navally with a naval personality? I was told recently that only one card performing an action must be naval in order to use a naval action, so I though this might be possible.
Akodo Kurogane and naval
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Can you use Kurogane navally with a naval personality?
Mod nudge: Please use complete card titles when asking questions. I'm going to assume you mean Akodo Kurogane here, and modify the thread title accordingly.
Yes.
On: Akodo Kurogane
I was told recently that only one card performing an action must be naval in order to use a naval action(.)
For the record, and so that you don't have to rely on heresay, the actual rule is here: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_The_Player#Player_abilities
On: Akodo Kurogane
with regards to this: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=80861
Akodo Kurogane is not naval to begin with. I thought that in order to perform a naval action, you must declare a personality with a Naval keyword. Or I might be wrong.
I only want to be clarified. Thanks for your answers.
References:
Akodo Kurogane:
Lion Clan • Samurai • Tactician • Unique Battle: If there are more units on your side of the current battlefield than on the enemy side, bow all cards in your target unit: Destroy a target non-Unique Personality.
Akodo Kurogane is not naval to begin with. I thought that in order to perform a naval action, you must declare a personality with a Naval keyword.
Two different abilities are involved here. Firstly the Reaction in the rulebook that a Naval Personality can perform after engaging so that his controller will get the first normal opportunity to take a Battle action or pass during the battle (see Player abilities). Secondly this player must announce a Battle action that the Naval Personality chosen above must perform (see Perform in the glossary).
Here comes Akodo Kurogane. Per the glossary, his Battle action is performed by two Personalities: himself, because the ability is on him, and the targeted unit that will bow to pay its cost, because targeting a unit is the same as targeting its Personality (see Unit in the glossary), and a Personality performs an action (taken by his controller) when he is targeted in the action's constraints block. If you bow the same Naval Personality's unit as a cost, this will make him perform Kurogane's action, which is what the rulebook Reaction requires. As a consequence it is legal to use this Reaction, then Kurogane's Battle action, as long as both of them are performed by the same Naval Personality.