Unit destruction

L5R CCG Rules board, 9 September 2012

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A player, 9 September 2012

If i got a shugenja with a spell that says while im defending and earth negate my personalities destruction from other players card effect, and my opponent uses a unit kill action, will my personality live or die? Because it all happens at the same time i wanna say it he does.

Brook Cunningham (rules official), 9 September 2012

If i got a shugenja with a spell that says while im defending and earth negate my personalities destruction from other players card effect, and my opponent uses a unit kill action, will my personality live or die? Because it all happens at the same time i wanna say it he does.

I'm guessing you're asking about The Mountain's Power? Actual cards' text helps more than vague examples. Fortunately, I answered this very question at GenCon.

An ongoing, triggered negation effect intrinsically happens just before the thing it negates, to prevent it from happening. Therefore, the Personality's destruction will be negated by his Spell before the "unit destruction" destroys said Spell. He'll then be left standing while all his attachments succumb.