Rules for 27 October 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 Wednesday, October 27, 2004
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It is more likely a trigger. (no cost here : cost are followed by 'to')
The acting player is the one discarding Sharaku.
Therefore the owner of Sharaku cannot be considered to be 'discarding' him, even though Sharaku is being 'discarded'.
Therefore you can't use Sharaku because you haven't fulfiled his trigger, someone else has.
[MARTY] OK, I see what you mean here.
I was looking at the question purely in terms of "can I do this even if Sharaku is face-down in the Province" and not "can I do this if another player's effect Discards Sharaku."
If you don't do the Discarding of Sharaku, you can't use Sharaku's ability because you don't meet the trigger: "If you are a Scorpion Clan player ... after discarding Sharaku ... from one of your Provinces."
You'd need Sharaku to say, "If you are a Scorpion Clan player ... after Sharaku - is discarded - ... from one of your Provinces."
OR (And this is the part the threw me off)
You need to use Bayushi Aramoro (whom Bayushi Toson is the Soul of), as his ability forces the player whose province it was to Discard the card, rather than Aramoro discarding it himself.
- Marty Lund
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That should cover everything from Wednesday not related to Dawn of the Empire. If I missed your question, please repost it with the flag [RULES] as part of your Clear and Distinct subject line. I'll get back to you at the first opportunity.
Thank you, - Marty Lund