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A player, 1 March 2011
I have read the FAQ. However I need further clarification.
If Crippling Weather is played by player A. Player B performs an action on his personality and is bowed. Can the bowed personality straighten with cards like Superior Mobility (Battle: Straighten your target unit.), Shattered Peaks Castle (Battle/Open: Even if this card is bowed: Straighten your target unit.) or are these actions considered targeting so the personality would straighten then bow again?
Cards in Question: Crippling Weather-Battle: Destroy all terrains in play. Until this battle ends, no new terrains may be played. After each time this battle an action ends, bow any Personalities who performed it.
Superior Mobility- Battle: Straighten your target unit. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and bow a card in his unit: Move a target enemy Personality home. If the movement fails, destroy him.
Shattered Peaks Castle- Battle/Open: Even if this card is bowed: Straighten your target unit.
Thanks,
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 1 March 2011
If Crippling Weather is played by player A. Player B performs an action on his personality and is bowed. Can the bowed personality straighten with cards like Superior Mobility, Shattered Peaks Castle or are these actions considered targeting so the personality would straighten then bow again?
Crippling Weather cares about performing, not targeting. Superior Mobility's second action says, "Choose your performing unbowed Personality" (emphasis added), so the Personality would be affected by Crippling Weather.
Shattered Peaks Castle and Superior Mobility's first action targets, but for them to be performed, the targeting would have to have colons on either side (as the FAQ reminds; http://rules.l5r.com/CE_FAQ#What_performs_an_action.3F). It is not performed, and the Personality is not hit by Crippling Weather.
Targeting does relate to performing, but the test for whether a card targets is easy. http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_T#Targeting: "The word 'target' must appear as a verb or an adjective for the procedure to be considered targeting -- just 'choosing' something is not targeting."
[Slightly changed to deal with multiple abilities on Superior Mobility.]
A player, 1 March 2011
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Just to quickly mention that the original poster mentioned straightening with Superior Mobility, not using its battle action, which WOULD be fine as the straighten action on Sup Mob isn't performed: "Battle: Straighten your target unit.". Of course Zen's answer was right if he'd mentioned the sendhome ability
Zen Faulkes (rules official), 1 March 2011
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=89212
Just to quickly mention that the original poster mentioned straightening with Superior Mobility, not using its battle action, which WOULD be fine as the straighten action on Sup Mob isn't performed: "Battle: Straighten your target unit.". Of course Zen's answer was right if he'd mentioned the sendhome ability
Stoopid cards with two actions.
Sigh. Thanks for the catch.