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, 20 January 2012
I had a question regarding the targeting on the Battle action of Effortless Counterattack.
Effortless Counterattack Reaction: Before the resolution of a Battle action that was taken as an additional action: Negate its effects. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target a Personality without attachments: Move him home.
Is there a targeting constraint or rule that would prevent me from choosing my unbowed personality AND also have him be the target personality without attachments to send him home? Basically, if I have a lone unbowed personality at a province, can I use EC to send my own unit home?
Alex Jones (rules official), 21 January 2012
I had a question regarding the targeting on the Battle action of Effortless Counterattack.
Effortless Counterattack Reaction: Before the resolution of a Battle action that was taken as an additional action: Negate its effects. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target a Personality without attachments: Move him home.
Is there a targeting constraint or rule that would prevent me from choosing my unbowed personality AND also have him be the target personality without attachments to send him home? Basically, if I have a lone unbowed personality at a province, can I use EC to send my own unit home?
You may use Effortless Counterattack (or Shamate Keep) to send your lone unbowed Personality home.
Choosing a performer is not targeting a card, so the Targeting rule, "When multiple targets are chosen simultaneously, the same target cannot be chosen twice," does not apply.