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 January 2012
Hello,
Since I have some trouble understanding the wording, and after having some discussion with other players, can you please clear up this for me?
The card I refer to is Hida's Guidance experienced and more specifically its trait, which reads:
Before the first straightening each battle of a Personality whose controller’s enemy leader is a Crab Clan player: Negate that straightening.
So, the question is whether this trait is negating the first straightening of each personality at the battle, or just the first straightening of a single personality that happens in the battle.
If an example would help: a) Otomo A and Otomo B, face Hida C (who plays out of a Crab stronghold) in a battle b) Otomo A and Otomo B bow. c) Otomo A plays a Straighten card. Hida Guidance prevents it. d) Otomo B plays a Straighten card. Does it go through?
Also in the example above, what would happen if Otomo A and Otomo B used a card to straighten simultaneously (like Creating Order).
Thanks a lot and best wishes for 2012.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 4 January 2012
Hello,
Since I have some trouble understanding the wording, and after having some discussion with other players, can you please clear up this for me?
The card I refer to is Hida's Guidance experienced and more specifically its trait, which reads:
Before the first straightening each battle of a Personality whose controller’s enemy leader is a Crab Clan player: Negate that straightening.
So, the question is whether this trait is negating the first straightening of each personality at the battle, or just the first straightening of a single personality that happens in the battle.
If an example would help: a) Otomo A and Otomo B, face Hida C (who plays out of a Crab stronghold) in a battle b) Otomo A and Otomo B bow. c) Otomo A plays a Straighten card. Hida Guidance prevents it. d) Otomo B plays a Straighten card. Does it go through?
Also in the example above, what would happen if Otomo A and Otomo B used a card to straighten simultaneously (like Creating Order).
Thanks a lot and best wishes for 2012.
Yes, Hida's Guidance stops the first straightening each battle, not the first straightening per personality each battle.