Rules for 19 December 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 Sunday, December 19, 2004
Rule Question : Kan'chek
Question is : What does "[the spells] whose cost would remove the spell from play." mean? Does it only apply to spells like Rise from the Ashes which have a 3remove from play" wording, or do we strictly follow English and apply this to any spell that is destroyed/discarded/ends not in play when cast?
It means spells that have a cost that includes phrasing that implies you take the spell from being in-play to some out-of-play area like "removed from the game," in the Discard Pile, in a Deck, etc. can't be used via Kan'chek's special effect.
You're looking mainly for costs that include: "Destroy this spell," "Discard this spell," "put this spell back into your deck," or "Remove this spell from the game," etc.
Kuni Yae's reaction timing
Kuni Yae needs to bow in order to steal a dead personality from a battle, but it has to be a battle won by her army, which means she must be in it. So if she is in an attacking army, can she do it? Her reaction is not explicit in it's timing. It seems to me, from the way it is worded, that she could react immediately after resolution, before the attacking army returns home bowed.
Yae isn't worded quite right, since Winning or Losing a battle or duel happens first and then you start destroying losers. Jeff and I went over this back around November 1st.
Use Yae after resolving the destruction of a losing army in a battle involving Yae or losing participant in a duel against Yae.
That should cover everything for Sunday the 19th. 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.