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, 6 January 2012
If I have the event Glory of the Shogun resolve and then later on my turn I attack and have a bowed unopposed shugenja at a battle would I be able to equip a spell on him?
Glory of the Shogun: Until the game ends, equipping is a Battle/Open action (for all players), and after the first time each turn each player attaches a card with a base Gold Cost of 5 or more from his hand, that player may draw a card.
Equip (From the KE rulebook) Limited: Any number of times per turn, choose your performing Personality and target an attachment card in your hand: Attach it to him, paying all costs.
There is a second Equip ability that may be used to attach Spells during battle.
Battle: Any number of times per turn, choose your performing unbowed opposed Shugenja and target a Spell in your hand: Attach it to him, paying all costs. You may take an additional action to use a Battle ability on that Spell.
I would think the answer would be yes as the limited action that you would use to attach spells on your turn is now a battle/open action although you would not get the additional action. Is this correct?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 6 January 2012
If I have the event Glory of the Shogun resolve and then later on my turn I attack and have a bowed unopposed shugenja at a battle would I be able to equip a spell on him?
Glory of the Shogun: Until the game ends, equipping is a Battle/Open action (for all players), and after the first time each turn each player attaches a card with a base Gold Cost of 5 or more from his hand, that player may draw a card.
Equip (From the KE rulebook) Limited: Any number of times per turn, choose your performing Personality and target an attachment card in your hand: Attach it to him, paying all costs.
There is a second Equip ability that may be used to attach Spells during battle.
Battle: Any number of times per turn, choose your performing unbowed opposed Shugenja and target a Spell in your hand: Attach it to him, paying all costs. You may take an additional action to use a Battle ability on that Spell.
I would think the answer would be yes as the limited action that you would use to attach spells on your turn is now a battle/open action although you would not get the additional action. Is this correct?
Yes, that's correct.
Glory of the Shogun modifies the Limited Equip ability.
A player, 9 January 2012
Regarding this: viewtopic.php?p=1266640#p1266640
Just to sort something out for myself to make sure I understanding right. Because the way I read that question and answer it almost sounds like Glory of the Shogun has overridden the rulebook Battle: Equip action.
Scenario: I have Glory of the Shogun in play.
I go to a battlefield and use the rulebook Battle: Equip action to attach a spell in my hand to my opposed, unbowed shugenja the first time that turn. The spell has a base gold cost of 5 of more.
Will my use of the rulebook Battle: Equip action give me an extra action still? Does my use of the rulebook Battle: Equip action allow me to draw a card (from Glory of the Shogun's effect) because the spell was 5g or more?
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 January 2012
Regarding this: viewtopic.php?p=1266640#p1266640
Just to sort something out for myself to make sure I understanding right. Because the way I read that question and answer it almost sounds like Glory of the Shogun has overridden the rulebook Battle: Equip action.
Scenario: I have Glory of the Shogun in play.
I go to a battlefield and use the rulebook Battle: Equip action to attach a spell in my hand to my opposed, unbowed shugenja the first time that turn. The spell has a base gold cost of 5 of more.
Will my use of the rulebook Battle: Equip action give me an extra action still? Does my use of the rulebook Battle: Equip action allow me to draw a card (from Glory of the Shogun's effect) because the spell was 5g or more?
Glory of the Shogun is only meant to modify the Limited Equip action, not the Battle one.
Granted, as worded, it technically does also modify the Battle one, but making the Battle Equip into Battle/Open is pointless, because you could never use it as an Open based upon its restriction that the performer be opposed. And in both cases, the part of Equip before the first colon is the only part Glory modifies; so, with the Battle one, you would still get your additional action.
Lastly, the drawing aspect of Glory of the Shogun is a separate effect, in no way tied to the Equip ability. No matter how you attach a card with a base Gold Cost of 5 or more, the first time you do each turn, you may draw a card.