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, 21 December 2010
It only occured to me the other day but the battle action on Shiba's Guidance doesn't say that you may ignore the honour requirement of the personality you target (and I don't think that it comes under the 'ignoring costs' text). I know think that you have to meet the personality's honour requirement; is this correct?
Shiba's Guidance
Battle/Open: If you are a Phoenix Clan player, discard this card: Bring your target honorably dead Phoenix Clan Personality into play in your home or at the current battlefield, ignoring costs.
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 21 December 2010
It only occured to me the other day but the battle action on Shiba's Guidance doesn't say that you may ignore the honour requirement of the personality you target (and I don't think that it comes under the 'ignoring costs' text). I know think that you have to meet the personality's honour requirement; is this correct?
Shiba's Guidance
Battle/Open: If you are a Phoenix Clan player, discard this card: Bring your target honorably dead Phoenix Clan Personality into play in your home or at the current battlefield, ignoring costs.
Honor requirements are not costs.
Honor requirements are always checked when bringing a Personality into play: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Card_types#Play ... sonalities
A player, 21 December 2010
So you would have to pay for them for cheap if you were below the honor requirements via using Shiba's Guidance?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 21 December 2010
So you would have to pay for them for cheap if you were below the honor requirements via using Shiba's Guidance?
No, you would be completely unable to use Shiba's Guidance to bring a Personality into play whose Honor Requirement you were not meeting.
The options to reduce or increase the Gold Cost of one of your Clan's Personalities, in lieu of gaining their Personal Honor or in order to ignore their Honor Requirement, is only available during the Dynasty Phase.