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
The Snow Has Teeth Reaction: After engaging: The current battlefield's province has a maximum strength equal to its base strength until the end of the battle. Negate the next effect that would move one of your Personalities from its battlefield. After the next time this battle a Terrain enters play, destroy it.
Surprise Attack Battle: Choose one or more of your performing Nonhuman Personalities at the current battlefield and target one of the enemy leader's Personalities there or at home: Create a battlefield (not associated with any province). Move all the performers and targets there
I think I know, but, I'm talking myself out of it and maybe I'm just overthinking this.
My opponent attacks, I defend with The Red Hunger I play The Snow Has Teeth as a reaction to engaging My first action is Surprise Attack, performed by TRH
Based on the negation from The Snow Has Teeth, I'm origianally assumed that TRH stays in the current battle and the personality I targeted gets moved to the other battle (not at a province)
I was a little hung up on the wording since it say negate the next effect and the effect moves both the performer and the target.
The more I read it, I'm thinking that it would prevent both TRH and the targeted card from being moved........in otherwords not a cute combo.
*edit* So it does work.....cool. Thanks!
Alex Jones (rules official), 16 June 2012
The Snow Has Teeth Reaction: After engaging: The current battlefield's province has a maximum strength equal to its base strength until the end of the battle. Negate the next effect that would move one of your Personalities from its battlefield. After the next time this battle a Terrain enters play, destroy it.
Surprise Attack Battle: Choose one or more of your performing Nonhuman Personalities at the current battlefield and target one of the enemy leader's Personalities there or at home: Create a battlefield (not associated with any province). Move all the performers and targets there
I think I know, but, I'm talking myself out of it and maybe I'm just overthinking this.
My opponent attacks, I defend with The Red Hunger I play The Snow Has Teeth as a reaction to engaging My first action is Surprise Attack, performed by TRH
Based on the negation from The Snow Has Teeth, I'm origianally assumed that TRH stays in the current battle and the personality I targeted gets moved to the other battle (not at a province)
I was a little hung up on the wording since it say negate the next effect and the effect moves both the performer and the target.
The more I read it, I'm thinking that it would prevent both TRH and the targeted card from being moved........in otherwords not a cute combo.
*edit* So it does work.....cool. Thanks!
The movement of each Personality is a separate effect, even though these movements all come the same piece of text, so one may be negated without interference with the others.
See Definition of Effects: Each individual change or creation of a card, a player, a game entity (such as Provinces), a game procedure is a separate effect.