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, 7 May 2010
I am at a battle and I have Moto Gaheris Exp and another personality. My opponent plays a Strategy to send Gaheris home. Can I play Imperial Command to make that Strategy target the other personality instead or is he not a legal target since the Strategy must remove Gaheris from the battle or it can't be taken in the first place?
Additionally if Moto Gaheris Exp and Moto Chagatai Exp 4 are in the same army; Will the only Strategies that can be played be ones that destroy Gaheris, remove Gaheris from play some other way, or are unpreventable send home?
Moto Gaheris Unicorn Clan Champion • Moto Clan Khan • Cavalry • Double Chi • Experienced • Unique Gaheris will only join a Unicorn player. Other players cannot play Action cards during the Battle Action Segment of a battle containing Gaheris unless the Action removes Gaheris from the battle.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 7 May 2010
I am at a battle and I have Moto Gaheris Exp and another personality. My opponent plays a Strategy to send Gaheris home. Can I play Imperial Command to make that Strategy target the other personality instead or is he not a legal target since the Strategy must remove Gaheris from the battle or it can't be taken in the first place?
Additionally if Moto Gaheris Exp and Moto Chagatai Exp 4 are in the same army; Will the only Strategies that can be played be ones that destroy Gaheris, remove Gaheris from play some other way, or are unpreventable send home?
Moto Gaheris Unicorn Clan Champion • Moto Clan Khan • Cavalry • Double Chi • Experienced • Unique Gaheris will only join a Unicorn player. Other players cannot play Action cards during the Battle Action Segment of a battle containing Gaheris unless the Action removes Gaheris from the battle.
Action fails. http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Abilities_and_a ... performing: "From the point when an action is announced in good faith, to the point when a particular required targeting or performing occurs (including reactions "when X would target"), if anything interferes so that a piece of required targeting or performing can no longer be met, the action fails."
The presence of Moto Chagatai (Exp 4) makes no difference to what cards can be played due to the Blind Cards rule: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Blind_cards_rule
Incidentally, destroying Gaheris or removing him from play isn't legit to take.
http://www.l5r.com/rulings/#Personalities: "An action card must immediately and unconditionally remove Gaheris's unit from the battle to be be legal. An action card that might remove Gaheris (e.g., Stand or Run), destroys Gaheris (e.g., To Do What We Must), or ends the battle (e.g., Entrapping Terrain), is not legal."