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.
Crippling Weather: 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.
Simple question. If Crippling Weather is destroyed, does the effect "no new terrains may be played" remain in effect? We have some confusion about how terrains with lasting effects like this work.
If Crippling Weather is destroyed, does the effect "no new terrains may be played" remain in effect?
No.
http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_T#Terrain: "If a Terrain leaves play before a battle’s Final Steps, its ongoing effects end, and its delayed effects will no longer be applied."
As a follow up to this: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=90913#p1207195
Crippling Weather isn't actually a terrain.
However, Crippling Weather also doesn't come into play, so I don't see how you would destroy it. I'm assuming Crippling Weather creates an instantaneous change.
As a follow up to this: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=90913#p1207195
Crippling Weather isn't actually a terrain.
However, Crippling Weather also doesn't come into play, so I don't see how you would destroy it. I'm assuming Crippling Weather creates an instantaneous change.
Er. Yes. The "destroyed" bit in the original question threw me. I reckoned it had to be a Terrain, since that's the kind of strategy that does get destroyed.
Bad Rules Guy for not looking at the card! No biscuit for me!
As Crippling Weather cannot be destroyed, the original question is working under a false premise. The effect continues after it is discarded, no different from many other strategy cards.