Rules for 4 April 2004
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.
And here for your enjoyment are the Rules for Sunday, April 4, 2004.
Playing With Madness
Chiang Tsu has Playing With Madness cast by him after he is enabled to by Bloodspeaker Sanctum. Does he lose his ability since he is treated as a Shugenja for the purpose of casting the Kiho, or does the Innate Ability definition only affect cards that are actually Shugenja?
Relevant cards (Chiang Tsu was just an example of a non-Shugenja with an Ability)
Bloodspeaker Sanctum 2g Bow to produce 2 gold. Maho Reaction: Before you cast a Kiho, bow Bloodspeaker Sanctum to allow one of your Personalities to cast the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. Permanently give thet Personality the Bloodspeaker trait.
Playing With Madness 0g, 1f Kiho Maho Limited: Bow one of your Shugenja. That shugenja permanently gains +2F/+2C and the Shadowlands and Bloodspeaker Traits, and permanently loses all current Innate Abilities. Any Spell or Kiho cast by the Shugenja for the rest of this game gans the Maho trait. Lose 2 Honor.
Wow, there's never a dull moment around here, is there?
Yup, he's casting the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. That makes all his abilities "Current Innate Abilities" while casting the Kiho. That means Playing with Madness will erase them permanently. Pretty vile stuff. I imagine that you could use this with Show of Good Faith to make some sort of evil juju.
Shiba Danjuro
I have a follower on Shiba Danjuro.
My opponent wants to hit one of the shugenja in Danjuro's army with a ranged attack.
Can I redirect the RA to Danjuro, ie is he a legal target? I don't think so, since he can't be targeted with a ranged attack until his follower is removed.
Well, sure. If Danjuro has a follower, then he is inelligable to be targeted by a Ranged Attack, unless said Ranged Attack can target a Personality with attached followers, of course.
Dragons and Inazuma blade
I know that dragons can't attach followers or items. However, as shugenga, they can use spells. Inazuma blade is a spell and an item. So.....can a dragon attach Inazuma blade as a spell?
The Dragon's explicitly state they can not attach Items. Inazuma Blade is an Item. Therefor, Dragons may not attach an Inazuma Blade.
That's the same reason non-Shugenja can't normally attach Inazuma Blade either. The rulebook explicitly states that those who are not Shugenja may not attach cards which are Spells.
That looks like everything. As always, I'll be refraining from ruling on Hidden City cards until they are officially released, so if you need an answer just this second, you're going to have to get one from Jeff. If I missed any of your other questions, I'm sorry. Please repost your inquiry with the flag [RULES] in the subject line and I'll get to it at the first opportunity.