Distractions in Court + Ambush

L5R CCG Rules board, 26 October 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, 26 October 2010

Rough sequence of events:

Opponent targets my personality with Bayushi Jutsushi.

Opponent plays Ambush, targetting my Jutsushi'd guy.

It forces me to assign, dishonour, and lose 2 honour.

During the battle, my opponent destroys my dishonourable personality, causing me to lose honour equal to his personal honour.

Opponent goes home bowed, and loses 5 honour.

If I play Distractions in Court in Reaction to the Ambush being announced, how many of these honour losses are reduced by 5?

Previous Distractions Question

Distractions in Court Reaction: After another player’s action is announced, bow your performing Courtier or Magistrate: Reduce all Honor losses by 5 until the action ends.

Bayushi Jutsushi Political Open: Target a Personality with Personal Honor lower than Jutsushi's Chi. After the next time the Personality's unit assigns this turn, dishonor him, and his controller loses 2 Honor.

Ambush Limited: Target your unbowed Personality: Create a battlefield (not at any province). Assign your Personality's unit to attack there. Assign another player’s target unit to defend there, even if its Personality is bowed. Other units will not move there. Fight a battle there (after this action's resolution). After the battle ends, lose 5 Honor.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 26 October 2010

Rough sequence of events:
Opponent targets my personality with Bayushi Jutsushi.
Opponent plays Ambush, targetting my Jutsushi'd guy.
It forces me to assign, dishonour, and lose 2 honour.
During the battle, my opponent destroys my dishonourable personality, causing me to lose honour equal to his personal honour.
Opponent goes home bowed, and loses 5 honour.
If I play Distractions in Court in Reaction to the Ambush being announced, how many of these honour losses are reduced by 5?

Only the loss from Jutsushi would be reduced. It triggers from assigning, and the assigning happens during the action's resolution, but the battle itself happens after the resolution (card text). The action ends when its resolution ends; those timing points are synonymous.

On: Distractions in Court, Bayushi Jutsushi