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, 15 June 2012
I'd like to know if the "Destroy his unit" at the end of Perfect Sacrifice refers to all cards that receive the force bonus or all cards in his unit at the end of the turn ?
Namely, in a situation where a Personnality with a follower is targeted with Perfect Sacrifice and I later transfer the follower to somebody else with, for instance Shinjo Sarang's ability, would the follower still be destroyed at the end of the turn eventhough he's not in the first personnality's unit anymore ?
Reminder text:
Perfect Sacrifice Dark Virtue * Perfection Battle/Limited: Choose your performing Samurai: Give each Personality and Follower in his unit a Force bonus equal to its current Force. Before this turn ends, destroy his unit.
Ben Higgins (rules official), 15 June 2012
I'd like to know if the "Destroy his unit" at the end of Perfect Sacrifice refers to all cards that receive the force bonus or all cards in his unit at the end of the turn ?
Namely, in a situation where a Personnality with a follower is targeted with Perfect Sacrifice and I later transfer the follower to somebody else with, for instance Shinjo Sarang's ability, would the follower still be destroyed at the end of the turn eventhough he's not in the first personnality's unit anymore ?
Reminder text:
Perfect Sacrifice Dark Virtue * Perfection Battle/Limited: Choose your performing Samurai: Give each Personality and Follower in his unit a Force bonus equal to its current Force. Before this turn ends, destroy his unit.
If you manage to transfer a Follower or Followers from the targeted Personality, then they will not be destroyed.
Each effect is independent and only applied when it's trigger occurs. In the case of the destruction effect, it's trigger happens, "Before this turn ends."
At that point the effect checks to see what cards are currently in the unit of the performing Personality, and applies the effects to them separately. (See EE Glossary: Unit)