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, 25 April 2012
Forgive my ignorance, but after searching this rules forum I'm still confused by the latter part of the first sentence on this card. After it enters play in the Events Phase, you refill it with two face-down cards. I'm with it so far. What's eluding me is the meaning of the part I've highlighted below:
Relevant text: This province holds two Dynasty cards;do not reveal the second card in the Events Phase this card enters play. You decide each time which card slot is revealed, resolved, or refilled first. Before this province is destroyed: Lose 10 Honor.
As I understand it, after a region enters play you refill the province face-down. You don't reveal the first card that refills the province, so why is there an instruction not to reveal the second card?
Again, apologies if this is glaringly obvious, I just couldn't work it out or find any explanation.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 25 April 2012
Forgive my ignorance, but after searching this rules forum I'm still confused by the latter part of the first sentence on this card. After it enters play in the Events Phase, you refill it with two face-down cards. I'm with it so far. What's eluding me is the meaning of the part I've highlighted below:
Relevant text: This province holds two Dynasty cards;do not reveal the second card in the Events Phase this card enters play. You decide each time which card slot is revealed, resolved, or refilled first. Before this province is destroyed: Lose 10 Honor.
As I understand it, after a region enters play you refill the province face-down. You don't reveal the first card that refills the province, so why is there an instruction not to reveal the second card?
Again, apologies if this is glaringly obvious, I just couldn't work it out or find any explanation.
Since Regions enter play during the Events phase, someone could technically look at the newly created slot, and say, "Oh look, a Dynasty slot I have not revealed yet! I shall reveal it now in sequence, as that is the act I am currently in the middle of undertaking." So, there's a clause to prevent it.