The Trap is Sprung & Kakita Kensho-in

L5R CCG Rules board, 6 June 2010

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, 6 June 2010

The Trap is Sprung states "bow a target enemy card. Bow its unit if you are a Crane Clan player". Let's say that I am a Crane player and am targeting a Kakita Kensho-in who has won a duel this turn with Trap is Sprung. Kensho-in could negate the "bow a target enemy card" but would still get bowed by the "bow its unit if you are a Crane Clan player" part of the Trap is Sprung card, correct?

Alex Jones (rules official), 6 June 2010

The Trap is Sprung states "bow a target enemy card. Bow its unit if you are a Crane Clan player". Let's say that I am a Crane player and am targeting a Kakita Kensho-in who has won a duel this turn with Trap is Sprung. Kensho-in could negate the "bow a target enemy card" but would still get bowed by the "bow its unit if you are a Crane Clan player" part of the Trap is Sprung card, correct?

Yes.

Bowing the target card and bowing the target card's unit are two separate bow effects, and Kakita Kensho-in will only negate one bow effect.