Rules for 26 and 27 January 2005
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, January 26 and Thursday, January 27, 2005
No new rulings for Wednesday.
Tani Hitokage
Can I make one of my bowed personalities do the Tani Hitokage duel? The Rule book says that when playing a CARD that creates a challenge you need to target an unbowed personality as challenger. But since strongholds aren't cards...
No. The Rulebook on page 54 says that bowed Personalities may not perform Actions that issue challenges. It does not matter whether the challenge is from a Stronghold or a card there, or in the definitions for "performing" on page 71.
Hatsu Suru
It's legal to play because the destruction still occurred, but it will do nothing except cause its player a 2-point Honor loss. Although Feign Death says nothing about the destroyed card needing to be in a discard pile, it is not legal to bring anything into the game in any state from outside the game without explicit instruction. Suitengu's Surge has such text. Feign Death does not.
Yes.
Uso Sensei and Feign Death
Someone told me that when you do Uso Sensei with a duel that's already lethal, it actually kills you twice, making stuff like Feign Death useless. Is that right? If it is, I don't see the logic behind it.
There is no logic behind it from a Story perspective.
From a rules perspective, the logic is very simple: Uso Sensei adds, "Destroy the loser" to the other results of a duel, and the various results of losing the duel resolve sequentially, with the added effects tacked onto the end.
So, if you play Steel on Steel, which already has an effect to destroy the loser, you'll add an additional effect on the end with Uso Sensei, causing two sequential effects that both destroy the loser.
That should cover everything from Wednesday the 26th and Thursday the 27th. If I missed your question, please repost it. I'll get back to you at the first opportunity.