Isawa Kaede and Seeker of Knowledge question

By kraken78, in L5R LCG: Rules Discussion

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If I attack with ISAWA KAEDE and SEEKER OF KNOWLEDGE -

The declared Ring (lets say earth) has the elements EARTH, AIR, and VOID

As per ISAWA KAEDE's text - "If this character wins the conflict as an attacker, instead of choosing an element to resolve, resolve each of that ring's effects"

Does this superseded the SEEKER OF AIR's text which requires you to choose and can the attacking player use all three effects? Or even crazier, does the attacker trigger all three effects from ISAWA KAEDE and then choose either air or earth again from SEEKER OF AIR?

In my interpretation, ISAWA KAEDE would allow all three effects to trigger, superseding SEEKER OF AIR's choice requirement.

Thoughts?

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My understanding is that Kaede allows you to resolve all three ring effects, but Seeker does not give you an extra effect on top of that.

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So the word from the devs is that Seeker of Knowledge's text indicating you choose which element to resolve is just reminder text of the actual rules from the Rules Reference. Speculation is that SoK's ability may have been written before that was added to the Rules Reference, and the templating was never updated to reflect that it's reminder text rather than a special ability. With this being the case though, basically SoK is resolving the ring effect following rules as written, whereas Kaede is introducing a replacement effect for the rules as written. Following that line of thought, it makes sense that you would simply replace the "choose one" effect from SoK with Kaede's "resolve each" effect.

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There is a dev ruling to this:

Q: 1) Could you please walk me step by step through the process of resolving multiple ring effects with Isawa Kaede?

Isawa Kaede and Keeper of Knowledge attack, win, move on to Step 3.2.6, the ring has Fire, Air, and Void elements. How does it work from here? I can see several possibilities:
1. The first player chooses the order in which ring effects would resolve, then for each ring effect the resolving player chooses whether to resolve that effect or not.
2. The resolving player chooses which effects to resolve, then the first player chooses the order in which those effects would resolve
3. The first player names a ring effect (Fire, Air, or Void), and the resolving player either resolves that ring effect, or chooses not to. Repeat for the other two ring effects.
Which interpretation is correct?


A: The active player has the option of resolving each ring effect — so may decide which ones they wish to resolve up front. (If only one is chosen, there is no simultaneous resolution for the first player to break.)

If more than one ring is chosen to resolve, the first player then determines the order in which they are applied.

This is an answer by Nate French here .