Moshi Kalani XP and the Rule of Location

L5R CCG Rules board, 4 April 2011 to 5 April 2011

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, 4 April 2011

Moshi Kalani (Experienced)'s Battle action reads:

Battle: Even if Kalani is bowed: Target your Personality. If his unit assigned to the current battlefield, or if any enemy units are there, move him there. Straighten his unit if he moved.

The Rule of Location says:

The Rule of Location: This rule has two parts:

A card in a unit must be at the current battlefield to be targeted by, or explicitly perform, a Battle action. If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield in order to take that action. EXCEPTION: As with the Rule of Presence, a Battle action can target, be performed by, or be taken by a card in a unit at another location if its costs or effects say they are able to move that unit to the current battlefield. The player who is taking the action must take choices within the action, if possible, such that they do move that unit there.

So if I have Personality A at a battlefield opposed by at least one enemy unit, and Moshi Kalani and Personality B are at home, can I use Kalani's battle action to move Personality B to the battlefield or can he only move himself there?

A player, 5 April 2011

So if I have Personality A at a battlefield opposed by at least one enemy unit, and Moshi Kalani and Personality B are at home, can I use Kalani's battle action to move Personality B to the battlefield or can he only move himself there?

He can only move himself there; the exception allows to take his action from home despite the second part only if he moves to the current battlefield.