Methodical Questioning

L5R CCG Rules board, 22 July 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, 22 July 2012

I have eight cards in my hand before End Phase and i've played Methodical Questioning this turn and bowed my Samurai as cost. Will MQ back to my hand before this turn ends as ninth card i don't have to discard it?

Limited: Choose your unbowed performing Samurai and you may bow him: He interrogates a witness. Loot at the top 3 cards of any Fate deck. Put them back in any order. If you bowed your Samurai, put this card into your hand from your discard pile before this turn ends.

Jon Palmer (rules official), 22 July 2012

I have eight cards in my hand before End Phase and i've played Methodical Questioning this turn and bowed my Samurai as cost. Will MQ back to my hand before this turn ends as ninth card i don't have to discard it?

Limited: Choose your unbowed performing Samurai and you may bow him: He interrogates a witness. Loot at the top 3 cards of any Fate deck. Put them back in any order. If you bowed your Samurai, put this card into your hand from your discard pile before this turn ends.

Yes, "before this turn ends" happens after the discard caused by the End Phase, and so you may keep Methodical Questioning as a 9th card in this case.