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, 13 December 2010
So here's the deal : After Inheriting an Heirloom has resolved, my opponent uses Bitter Lies student to fetch a non-unique equipment and then attaches said weapon to a personality. At the end of his turn, does he get to draw the additional card off the event or not? In other words, does the from the Bitter Lies Student put the fetched weapon in your hand before attaching it or does it attach it directly?
Relevant text :
Bitter Lies Student : Battle/Open: Remove this card from the game: Search your discard pile, then your Fate deck, for a non-Unique Weapon. You may attach it to your target Personality.
Inheriting an Heirloom: Until the game ends, during each player's End Phase, he may draw an additional card if he put any Weapons or Armors into play from his hand that turn.
Alex Jones (rules official), 13 December 2010
So here's the deal : After Inheriting an Heirloom has resolved, my opponent uses Bitter Lies student to fetch a non-unique equipment and then attaches said weapon to a personality. At the end of his turn, does he get to draw the additional card off the event or not? In other words, does the from the Bitter Lies Student put the fetched weapon in your hand before attaching it or does it attach it directly?
Relevant text :
Bitter Lies Student : Battle/Open: Remove this card from the game: Search your discard pile, then your Fate deck, for a non-Unique Weapon. You may attach it to your target Personality.
Inheriting an Heirloom: Until the game ends, during each player's End Phase, he may draw an additional card if he put any Weapons or Armors into play from his hand that turn.
Bitter Lies Student attaches a card from the discard pile or fate deck, not from your hand.
A player, 13 December 2010
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Isn't the problem purely hypothetical, seeing how BLS action is an Battle/Open and thus can't actually be played during the end phase?
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 13 December 2010
Isn't the problem purely hypothetical, seeing how Bitter Lies Student action is an Battle/Open and thus can't actually be played during the end phase?
No, that is not a problem, because it's an interaction with Inheriting an Heirloom, which creates a condition that checks throughout the turn and then provides an option in the end phase.
It's hypothetical because Bitter Lies Student does not fulfill the requirements for Inheriting an Heirloom - as was previously noted.