Rules for 9 August 2004

Your Rules for Monday, August 9, 2004

Naga as Creatures [JEFF]

Greetings,

Is there any chance that we can get a blurb saying Naga are considered creatures?

You mean "rulebook errata"? It's not likely, no.

Stacked effects question [Marty]

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--- James and Andrea Collier

Can I play Yoritomo Katoa, do a Leon to bow and straighten him a few times, and thus cancel the next few political actions, or do I have to wait for one to resolve before pre-cancelling the next?

[MARTY] You can bow and unbow him as many times as you want, but it won't do you a whole lot of good. His action's effect is to, "Negate all effects of the next Political Action this game." His action type is, "Political Open."

If you use his ability, unbow him non-Politically, and then attempt to use the ability again, would that not be the "next Political Action this game," and consequently have its effects Negated?

Rules From Jeff - Action Cards and "entering play"

From Jeff:

"Cards that resolve, then hit the discard pile immediately, never enter play or spend any time in play.

Marty, would you please announce this, plus the natural result that the upcoming Shosuku Sensei card will not trigger off Action cards such as Ambush?"

Pit of Blood

If my Pit of Blood is destroyed, are the personalities stacked considered as dead or discarded when put into the discard pile ?

Forwarded to Jeff.

Stacked effects question [Marty]

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Fine, then use Soshi Seika to remove the political trait from his action. What then? You will have more than one. =)

[MARTY] Well, if you build a combo that keeps Kotoa from negating his own Action's effects, then sure, you can have more than one of the effect in play.

They still won't "stack" in any appreciable manner. They only have any impact on the "next" Political Action played after Kotoa's ability is played. It will just be a bunch of redundant effects. They won't affect any action other than the next one after Kotoa's ability is played.

Of course, if you had some means of preventing the Negation of your Political Action with some sort of Reaction, then multiple Kotoa plays might matter.

Multiple Winds and Shogun's Fealty

1) I have more than one Wind in play. For The Shogun's Fealty, do I pick what Wind to check the "no other players have your Wind" condition for, or must all of them pass that condition?

I'll ask Jeff about Designer's Intent for that.

Did I just miss the eventual answer to this, or are we still waiting on one?

Jeff said that you get no benefit from Shogun's Fealty if there are any matches to any of your Winds.

Rules for 4 August 2004

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Sorry, I asked on 04/08/2k4 this: Hello, I have a Question if you guys can help me:

Player X attacks Province 1 with Personality A. Player Y defends Province 1 with Personality B. And also has Suiteru no Oni, and Personality C in his home. Battle at Province 1 resolves.

Player Y wants to destroy Peronality B to Suiteru no Oni and put tokens on Personality C.

Can he do this?

Yes. You satisfy Relevance. You are targeting and destroying Personality B (a card in the battle) with the Action.

That should cover all the non-Wrath-related questions for Monday (and even a Wrath-related one that managed to sneak in!). If I missed your question, please repost it with the flag [RULES] as part of its clear and distinct subject line.