No more cards in deck; honor requirements

L5R CCG Rules board, 4 June 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 June 2011

Hey, Im a new player and Ive read through the FAQ, the rules book (several times) and searched through here to trying to learn the game..

I think I pretty well understand, but our first game is about to start and I have 2 questions that I dont yet know the answer too:

1) If I draw through a deck, and there is nothing left--- what happens?

2) I dont understand fully playing personalities. If Im playing Clan A... and I want to buy a personality that costs 13 and is a member of my clan, but has a honor requirement of 40 and I only have say 15 at that point.. I dont really get what I do.

I think the way it works from the book is this: -if it costs the same or less ph than my honor, I can pay 2 less to play it -if it costs the same or less ph than my honor, I can pay its printed cost and gain honor = to its personal honor just before it enters play (40 in this case)

in this case, my honor is less than my personalities-- so this is the part im really not sure about... I think the card costs 2 less because its in my clan, but then costs 2 more because I dont have enough honor... at that point I think my option is to -pay the printed cost and have nothing happen -pay 2 more and gain the personalities ph before it comes into play.

This right? Any helps is appreciated.

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Zen Faulkes (rules official), 4 June 2011

If I draw through a deck, and there is nothing left--- what happens?

http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Areas_of_the_ga ... of_play.29: "Nothing special happens if either deck contains no cards."

If Im playing Clan A... and I want to buy a personality that costs 13 and is a member of my clan, but has a honor requirement of 40 and I only have say 15 at that point.. I dont really get what I do.

http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Sequence_of_play#Dynasty_Phase: "(I)ncrease the Gold cost to play the Personality by 2. If he does so, he may ignore the Personality's Honor Requirement to bring him into play. "