Mastering the Elements - Multiple Copies

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 October 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, 22 October 2011

Hi there,

This question came up today in play. Imagine I play Mastering the Elements and copy Seek the Stain, I want to know if my original Reaction from Mastering the Elements is erased or not.

Basically I want to know if it's possible if I destroy the Mastering the Elements to re-attach it from the discard pile (per Seek the Stain trait) and effectively copy another spell when it entered play.

Thanks!

Javier

Alex Jones (rules official), 22 October 2011

Hi there,

This question came up today in play. Imagine I play Mastering the Elements and copy Seek the Stain, I want to know if my original Reaction from Mastering the Elements is erased or not.

Basically I want to know if it's possible if I destroy the Mastering the Elements to re-attach it from the discard pile (per Seek the Stain trait) and effectively copy another spell when it entered play.

Thanks!

Javier

The keywords, traits and abilities copied by Mastering the Elements' Reaction are not lost when Mastering the Elements leaves play, nor when its Reaction is next used. They stay copied until Mastering the Elements is face down and out of play.