Dark Rings from 1000 years of Darkness

L5R CCG Rules board, 17 August 2010 to 18 August 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, 17 August 2010

Hi,

I have some questions about the Dark Rings which were printed in the 1000 years of Darkness. As the Rings have the Unique trait since, do the Dark Ring get it ? If yes, does a Dark Ring played by his own text count for an Enlightened Victory if the Event Wanderers Revealed resolves and erase every trait on this card ?

Card's text : Wanderers Revealed : Target a Unique card. The target permanently loses all traits and abilities.

Dark Ring of Air : Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor.This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of Air enters play.Play this card after you destroy another player's Shugenja or Monk with an action.Elemental Benefit: Once per turn, cancel a Spell or Kiho targeting you or your cards.

Dark Ring of Earth : Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor.This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of Earth enters play.Play this card after destroying an attacking army during battle resolution as the Defender.Elemental Benefit: Personalities and Followers have -1F while attacking your Provinces.

Dark Ring of Fire : Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor.This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of Fire enters play. Play this card after winning a duel if you have won more than 1 duel this turn.Elemental Benefit: Cards focused against your Personalities in duels have their focus values reduced by 2.

Dark Ring of the Void : Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor. This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of the Void enters play. Play this card when it becomes the only card in your hand and you are not drawing cards.Elemental Benefit: If you have no cards in your hand at the start of your End Phase, you may force one other player to discard a card from his or her hand. If you do, you may not draw cards into your hand for the rest of the turn.

Dark Ring of Water : Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor.This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of Water enters play. Play this card after destroying a defending army or Province as the Attacker in a battle which had no attacking units assigned.Elemental Benefit: Once per turn, before an action moves one or more cards into or out of a battle, cancel that action.

Thanks in advance, Rémi.

Zen Faulkes (rules official), 17 August 2010

As the Rings have the Unique trait since, do the Dark Ring get it ?

No.

A player, 18 August 2010

Regarding this thread, as the CE rulebook no longer makes Rings limited one to a deck by default, does this mean you can play 3 copies of the same Dark Ring in a deck?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 18 August 2010

Regarding this thread, as the CE rulebook no longer makes Rings limited one to a deck by default, does this mean you can play 3 copies of the same Dark Ring in a deck?

Yes it does mean that...

...until I errata them!

*unholsters a six-shooter, pops out the cylinder, and loads a full compliment of errata-bullets*

(The last one is for Wanderers Revealed.)

"I'm fixin' ta clean up this here town... one card at a time." -- Sheriff Me