Proclaiming and Cards That Bring Personalities Into Play

L5R CCG Rules board, 5 January 2012

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, 5 January 2012

The new proclaim rules say that you can gain honour as a reaction to coming into play if you did not reduce their cost with the clan discount, once per turn.

So, just to check my understanding, if I am a dragon clan player and I bring a dragon clan monk into play with Panther tattoo, in my attack phase, can I proclaim to gain their personal honour?

Panther Tattoo Tattoo Battle: If there are any enemy units at the current battlefield, choose your performing Tattooed Personality who is face-up in one of your provinces or discarded (not dead): Bring him into play at the current battlefield, paying 2 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements.

What about if I am a Lion Clan player and use Kitsu Akai's limited ability? Can I proclaim for the ancestor token? Kitsu Akai Lion Clan • Water • Shugenja Limited: Create a 2F/2C/3PH Lion Clan • Samurai • Ancestor • Spirit Personality. Battle: Bow your performing Ancestor Personality and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it. Gain 1 Honor.

Alex Jones (rules official), 5 January 2012

The new proclaim rules say that you can gain honour as a reaction to coming into play if you did not reduce their cost with the clan discount, once per turn.

So, just to check my understanding, if I am a dragon clan player and I bring a dragon clan monk into play with Panther tattoo, in my attack phase, can I proclaim to gain their personal honour?

Panther Tattoo Tattoo Battle: If there are any enemy units at the current battlefield, choose your performing Tattooed Personality who is face-up in one of your provinces or discarded (not dead): Bring him into play at the current battlefield, paying 2 less Gold and ignoring Honor Requirements.

What about if I am a Lion Clan player and use Kitsu Akai's limited ability? Can I proclaim for the ancestor token? Kitsu Akai Lion Clan • Water • Shugenja Limited: Create a 2F/2C/3PH Lion Clan • Samurai • Ancestor • Spirit Personality. Battle: Bow your performing Ancestor Personality and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it. Gain 1 Honor.

The Proclaim ability is: Reaction: After you bring a Personality in your province with your Clan alignment into play without Clan discount, if it is your turn: Gain Honor equal to his base Personal Honor.

You must have brought the Personality into play from a province. You cannot Proclaim after bringing a Personality into play from the discard pile, or after creating a Personality.