Lusxurious Silks and Sundering Strike pt2

L5R CCG Rules board, 27 September 2012 to 30 September 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, 27 September 2012

"You're still paying for an action, it's just an optional payment since it's not in the constraints block. You may use Luxurious Silk's Reaction.

Alex"

In that case can it be used for action such as Peace and The Heir's Wrath?

Alex Jones (rules official), 30 September 2012

"You're still paying for an action, it's just an optional payment since it's not in the constraints block. You may use Luxurious Silk's Reaction.

Alex"

In that case can it be used for action such as Peace and The Heir's Wrath?

Peace has no gold cost, and its ability reads: Limited: Search your Dynasty deck for a non-Unique Holding. Bring it into play (bowed), paying all costs.

The cost you must pay (underlined) is that of the holding, not of the action, so Luxurious Silk's Reaction may not be used.

The Heir's Wrath' s ability reads: Limited: Target another player's Personality, pay Gold equal to his unit's total Gold Cost, and discard the Imperial Favor or bow a Personality with five or more Force: Lose 2 Honor and destroy the target; these effects will not be negated.

Here, the cost you must pay (underlined) is equal to that of the target's unit, but it's a cost of the action, not of the target. so Luxurious Silk's Reaction may be used.