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, 14 April 2011
this question is a follow up to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=84008&p=1106180&hilit=scouting+far#p1106180
So i was playing vs a breeder deck. he had out 20 zombies and was coming to crush a province. I used turn the tide and bow all of them. I was happy because i thought i would gain 40 honor and win the game on the next turn. However he played scouting far afield, and destroyed one of his zombies. the card he grabbed from the discard was a previously used copy of scouting far afield. then the next action he used was used his recently re-obtained scouting far afield to destroy a zombie and get a card(the first scouting far afield). The process looks like this:
1)have a scouting far afield in the discard 2)play scouting far afield, destroy a zombie, get scouting far afield from the discard. 3)repeat until all zombies are dead
According to the first ruling, this isn't possible because a card can only be used 1 time per turn. According to the second this is perfectly legal because the card returns to the hand. My question is, Is this a legal way to jack me of all that honor gain?
Alex Jones (rules official), 14 April 2011
this question is a follow up to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=84008&p=1106180&hilit=scouting+far#p1106180
So i was playing vs a breeder deck. he had out 20 zombies and was coming to crush a province. I used turn the tide and bow all of them. I was happy because i thought i would gain 40 honor and win the game on the next turn. However he played scouting far afield, and destroyed one of his zombies. the card he grabbed from the discard was a previously used copy of scouting far afield. then the next action he used was used his recently re-obtained scouting far afield to destroy a zombie and get a card(the first scouting far afield). The process looks like this:
1)have a scouting far afield in the discard 2)play scouting far afield, destroy a zombie, get scouting far afield from the discard. 3)repeat until all zombies are dead
According to the first ruling, this isn't possible because a card can only be used 1 time per turn. According to the second this is perfectly legal because the card returns to the hand. My question is, Is this a legal way to jack me of all that honor gain?
Zen's second ruling is correct. Because the card returns to your hand, game state "forgets" that you have used its ability so you may take an action using it again this turn.