"Once per game" effects and abilities

L5R CCG Rules board, 3 May 2012 to 5 May 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, 3 May 2012

Are "once per game" abilities and effects reset, and hence, reusable when it's card leaves play in a manner where it becomes face down? (i.e.; returned to a deck, hand, or province).

Example: If I use Sachina's ability, and she somehow goes back to my dynasty deck, can she use her ability again if/when she comes back into play?

Jon Palmer (rules official), 5 May 2012

Are "once per game" abilities and effects reset, and hence, reusable when it's card leaves play in a manner where it becomes face down? (i.e.; returned to a deck, hand, or province).

Example: If I use Sachina's ability, and she somehow goes back to my dynasty deck, can she use her ability again if/when she comes back into play?

Per the Tracking Rule, if a card goes facedown and out of play, it forgets that it's used its abilities. Therefore if Sachina is shuffled back into a deck, she will be able to use her ability again if she re-enters play.