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.
Open: Choose your performing Commander: Look at the top 5 cards of your Fate deck. If one of them is a Follower, you may attach it to him, paying 4 less Gold. Put the remaining cards on the bottom of your deck in any order.
Let's say I find a follower that I don't have enough gold to pay for. If I choose it and I can't pay the cost to attach it, does it get discarded, or does it go with the rest of the cards to the bottom of the deck?
Let's say I find a follower that I don't have enough gold to pay for. If I choose it and I can't pay the cost to attach it, does it get discarded, or does it go with the rest of the cards to the bottom of the deck?
It goes with the rest of the cards to the bottom of the deck (see below, emphasis added).
Playing attachments: "To play an attachment card, a player follows this sequence: [...] D. The player pays the attachment's Gold cost and any other costs of bringing it into play (see Costs). If costs are interfered with and not fully paid, the attachment card returns to where it came from and the sequence ends."