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Can Hundred Fold Cut be played as a Reaction to Consumed by Five Fires in order to stop the Kensai's destruction?
Relevant Text
Hundred Fold Cut Reaction: After another player's action targets your performing Kensai, bow or destroy one of his Weapons: Negate his destruction from the action's effects.
Consumed by Five Fires Battle: Bow this card: Destroy a target enemy unit with fewer cards than this unit.
Can Hundred Fold Cut be played as a Reaction to Consumed by Five Fires in order to stop the Kensai's destruction?
Is this question asking if targeting a Unit the same as targeting a Personality?
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_U#Unit: "Targeting a unit is the same as targeting its Personality."
Or is there something else generating the question?
If the question is, "Does Consumed by Five Fires's destruction of the whole unit - including any weapons - mean that it's not possible to play Hundred-Fold Cut because the weapons will be destroyed before the Reaction is taken?" then the answer is no. Reactions triggered "before" an effect are taken before all other effects that occur simultaneously with that effect, such as the destruction of each card in a unit.
This is the same as, for example, when Duty is played in response to Burn the Village: you can destroy one of the personalities about to be destroyed by Burn the Village to negate the destruction of the other.
Alex