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 April 2012
Open: Choose one or two of your performing unbowed Nonhuman Spirit Personalities, target another player's unbowed Personality, bow this Shugenja, and destroy this card: Create a battlefield. Negate all movement to it. Assign the target to attack there; he will not be destroyed during the battle's Combat Segment. Assign the performing Spirits to defend there. Fight a battle there.
If I announce the action on Chikushudo's Trickery, can I target another player's personality first(so I can see if he changes the target) before choosing my nonhuman spirits? Or do I follow the order written on the card?
If my caster of Chikushudo's Trickery is a nonhuman spirit shugenja, can I choose it as the personality to enter the battle bowed(since it payed the cost of bow this shugenja)?
Jon Palmer (rules official), 9 April 2012
If I announce the action on Chikushudo's Trickery, can I target another player's personality first(so I can see if he changes the target) before choosing my nonhuman spirits? Or do I follow the order written on the card?
If my caster of Chikushudo's Trickery is a nonhuman spirit shugenja, can I choose it as the personality to enter the battle bowed(since it payed the cost of bow this shugenja)?
You must follow the order listed on the card.
Because of this, you may choose the performing Shugenja even tho he will be bowed as part of the cost.
A player, 9 April 2012
Follow up to this.
Can Kitsune Kohaki announce Chikushido's Trickery, choosing only Kohaki to assign to the battle, bow to pay the cost of the card, and not assign to the battle because Chikushido's Trickery does not specifically allow you to ignore the rule that you may not assign bowed cards to a battlefield?
Alex Jones (rules official), 12 April 2012
Follow up to this.
Can Kitsune Kohaki announce Chikushido's Trickery, choosing only Kohaki to assign to the battle, bow to pay the cost of the card, and not assign to the battle because Chikushido's Trickery does not specifically allow you to ignore the rule that you may not assign bowed cards to a battlefield?
Yes, for the reason stated.