post for 10 December 2001
A rules digest from the L5R CCG rules team, copied from the mailing list archive for Oracle of the Void. The askers' names are left out. Rulings are as they stood on this date; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
Judgement of Toshiken question
I have a question about the aforementioned card. Its last sentence says: "If either personality has not focused, each can focus an extra time, starting with the challenged personality", and my doubt is: can the challenged personality say "strike" again, thus stopping the focusing, or is each personality able to play a focus card, or refuse to do so?
The latter. Striking is not an option.
no one wins
Some friends of mine had a near brawl over the card No One Wins last night, I said I would ask their question, I wasn't around for the game. Card text: No One Wins Gold cost: 2 Focus: 3 "Costs 2 less Gold for Scorpion Clan players. Political Reaction: Play during battle resolution to prevent all honor gains from destroying cards during the battle's resolution."
The main question seems to be, does this card prevent the destruction of units from honor gains or does it prevent the gain of honor when the units are destroyed?
It prevents only the honor gains, not the actual destruction.
Dark Oracle Question
I just finished our local SotSh tournament, and got a Dark Oracle of Earth. I looked over the card, and came up with a question. If you use the Dark Oracle on the Province that the experienced Hida Yakamo is in, may he enter play? He won't enter paly if you have any shadowlands cards in play, and vice-versa, but you don't have any in play when he is trying to enter.
He'll enter.
Dark Oracle Question
On a side note, what happens with Warrens of the Nezumi + Dark Oracle of Earth, assuming you turn up a Shadowlands card?
You mean a Ratling card, don't you? It would not gain the Shadowlands trait.