Gold and Steel and Mastering the Elements

L5R CCG Rules board, 4 February 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, 4 February 2012

Mastering the Elements-

Reaction: After this card enters play, target your Spell and pay Gold equal to its base Gold Cost: This card permanently copies the Spell's keywords, traits, and its base abilities that do not themselves copy abilities. Gold Cost-0

Gold and Steel-

Text Battle/Open: Target one to three attachments with a Gold Cost of 0: Destroy them. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target an enemy Personality with an equal or lower Gold Cost: Bow him. You may move him home.

Can i use Gold and Steel to destroy Mastering Elements after it copies another spell in play or is a card's gold cost a trait. Hence if it copied a 4 gold cost spell would Mastering the Elements be a 4 gold cost spell now and ineligible for destruction from Gold and Steel?

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 4 February 2012

Can i use Gold and Steel to destroy Mastering Elements after it copies another spell in play[?]

Yes.

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is a card's gold cost a trait?

No, it is a stat unto itself, wholly separate from keywords, traits, and abilities.

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