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, 9 January 2012
I know how similar cards were ruled such as Unnatural Flood, but I wanted to clarify how it worked with Journey's End keep as well. Thanks.
So if I attacked at a province and use Sneak Attack when engaging. Then the first battle action I preformed was Journey's End Keeps ability. Would my opponent be able to play Entrenched Position to negate the actions effects?
Journey's End Keep: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target a Personality with as many or fewer Followers attached: Move him home; this will not be negated or delayed.
Entrenched Position: Reaction: After the Attacker announces a Battle action before the Defender's first normal opportunity to act or pass: Negate its effects.
Jon Palmer (rules official), 9 January 2012
I know how similar cards were ruled such as Unnatural Flood, but I wanted to clarify how it worked with Journey's End keep as well. Thanks.
So if I attacked at a province and use Sneak Attack when engaging. Then the first battle action I preformed was Journey's End Keeps ability. Would my opponent be able to play Entrenched Position to negate the actions effects?
Journey's End Keep: Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target a Personality with as many or fewer Followers attached: Move him home; this will not be negated or delayed.
Entrenched Position: Reaction: After the Attacker announces a Battle action before the Defender's first normal opportunity to act or pass: Negate its effects.
The "this will not be negated or delayed" clause is not an "effect" in itself, but rather modifies the preceeding effect. Therefore, it is not negated by Entrenched Positions's blanket negation of the action's effects, and it also prevents the movement from being negated by Entrenched Position either.