Rules for 27 July 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.
Your Rules for Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Strength in Numbers and Direct Assault
When I pay a cost by bowing a unit (Direct Assault, Strength in Numbers) does the entire unit need to be unbowed, or only the personality?
A unit is defined as a Personality and all his attached cards. When you are told to do something to a unit, you've got to do that to the whole thing - all the cards. You can't pay a cost of bowing cards with cards that are already bowed. Since a unit is made up of cards, you can not pay the cost of bowing a unit with a unit that contains bowed cards.
For clarification, is it correct that Strength in Number's first ability "Battle: Bow three of your units to destroy an opposing unit" requires all 3 units that bowed to be opposing the destroyed unit.
Yes. The "victim" of Strength in Numbers must be opposing all 3 of the Performing units.
questions regarding Nairu no Oni
In general - are Onisu considered Oni or not?
No. Onisu does not carry an implicit "oni" trait anywhere in the Rules, nor can you break up a word like Onisu or Farmlands into their component parts. No using Oni-based cards on Onisu. No bowing Farmlands to pay for using Simple Huts.
Doji Kurohito and Voice of the Emperor
What happens to the Rings the you put into play from the Voice of the Emperor when Doji Kurohito Dies and the Voice of the Emperor is then removed from the game?
The effects of an Action are not automatically ended just because the card that generated them has left play. Voice of the Emperor says, "Political Limited: Once per turn, bow your Stronghold or a Courtier to put an Elemental Ring into play from your hand. While in play, that Ring does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory, and at the beginning of each of your turns, discard a card from your hand or shuffle the Ring back into your Fate deck."
That's all one ability. Its effects persist until the Ring leaves play as per the "while" duration in the second sentence. Whether the Voice stays in play or not is irrelevant once the Action has been played. Every turn you may choose to either discard to keep the card or shuffle it back into your deck. The effect ends once that Ring leaves play, not the Voice.
That should be everything for Tuesday. If I missed your non-Wrath question, please repost it with the flag [RULES] in the subject line and I'll get back to you at the first opportunity.