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 February 2012
Iron Will Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action.
Suitengu's Torch Reaction: After you announce a Thunder Battle action: Its effects will not be negated or delayed. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target an enemy Personality: Move him home.
(1)I have two questions, when i announce a thunder battle action, do i then have to use the stronghold reaction? (2)can i wait for my opponent to play some type of negation card before i announce this reaction?
if number 2 is correct then my second question is this. if i bow my shugenja for a thunder spell, and they play Iron Will, then i react with my strongholds ability, Do i get to unbow my shungenja because the card says negate both cost and effect but my stronghold says that only the effects cannot be negated.
Also is consider a thunder action if the personality performing it is thunder?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 9 February 2012
Iron Will Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action.
Suitengu's Torch Reaction: After you announce a Thunder Battle action: Its effects will not be negated or delayed. Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target an enemy Personality: Move him home.
(1)I have two questions, when i announce a thunder battle action, do i then have to use the stronghold reaction? (2)can i wait for my opponent to play some type of negation card before i announce this reaction?
if number 2 is correct then my second question is this. if i bow my shugenja for a thunder spell, and they play Iron Will, then i react with my strongholds ability, Do i get to unbow my shungenja because the card says negate both cost and effect but my stronghold says that only the effects cannot be negated.
Also is consider a thunder action if the personality performing it is thunder?
It depends on the timing. Some negation reacts to announcing an action (Entrenched Position). If this happens, you can then use Suitengu's Torch's reaction to make the action non-negatable.
Iron Will, however, reacts to the targeting, and therefore is played after the window in which Suitengu's Torch's reaction is usable.
An action is a Thunder action if the card it is printed on has the Thunder keyword, or if the action itself has the Thunder keyword.