Leaked Information and A Magistrates Blade (L5R rules board)

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, 31 January 2011

So I was looking at this. And it got me thinking. If you played enticement on an opponents Samurai(or Courtier). Then used Wooden Baricade to move A Magistrates Blade onto the enticed Samurai. Used him to play Leaked Information targeting one of your personalities. If you then moved the Magistrates Blade off the enticed Personality with another Wooden Baricade. And played Ambush with the Enticed Personality, Would the Leaked Information effects still go off?

Leaked Information: Limited: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate: Target a Personality with Personal Honor equal to or lower than your Magistrate's Chi. The Personality's unit may not assign to a battlefield this turn unless your Magistrate is there. After each time your Magistrate's unit assigns this turn, assign the Personality's unit to the same battlefield (if legal).

Not really sure how this would play out, but I see one of three possible outcomes... 1) The ability specifically refers to "Your Magistrate", since the enticed personality is no longer a Magistrate the Leaked Information Triggered effect to assign your other personality fails. 2) The Leaked Information triggered effect fails because the assignment of the enticed personality fails due to the effects of enticement. (This is the one I believe is most likely) 3) The Leaked Information triggered effect succeeds, but the enticed personality fails to assign because of enticement.

So really two questions, 1) does the Triggered Effect of Leaked Information care if the original performing Personality is still a Magistrate at the time he assigns to a battlefield? and 2) Does the Assignment of Leaked Information trigger off the effect of attempting to Assign the Personality, or only if the Personality actually succeeds in being assigned to a battlefield?

Alex Jones (rules official), 31 January 2011

1) does the Triggered Effect of Leaked Information care if the original performing Personality is still a Magistrate at the time he assigns to a battlefield?

No.

See References: Once a card or other game element is identified by a keyword in a trait or action’s text (such as, “Bow one of your Samurai”) further references to that keyword within that trait or action are meant to only identify the particular game element clearly (such as, “Your Samurai gains +2F”). Specifically, if the Samurai somehow loses the Samurai keyword between the first and second references, the second effect still applies.

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2) Does the Assignment of Leaked Information trigger off the effect of attempting to Assign the Personality, or only if the Personality actually succeeds in being assigned to a battlefield?

Leaked Information says, "After each time your Magistrate's unit assigns": if the unit never assigns, there's never a time "after assignment."

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