Skipping the Puddle

Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kata, Water

Card Text

You have the ability, "Water Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, choose your performing Water Shugenja: Move him there. You may take an additional Battle action which he must perform."
Limited: Put this card into play. Discard all your other Kata.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Skipping the Puddle: Water Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, choose your performing Water Shugenja: Move him there. You may take an additional Battle action which he must perform.
  Player Abilities: (Equip) Battle: Any number of times per turn, choose your performing unbowed opposed Shugenja and target a Spell in your hand: Attach it to him, paying all costs. You may take an additional action to use a Battle ability on that Spell.
  Effortless Counterattack: Reaction: Before the resolution of a Battle action that was taken as an additional action: Negate its effects.
  Player A uses Skipping the Puddle to draw a Shug into battle, equips a spell as additional action. Player B reacts with Effortless CA.
  Plainly, the Spell does not get attached, of course, but:
  - does the Spell remain in Player A's hand? I am pretty sure it does... more tricky part, does Player B get to *see* the spell?
  - what happens wrt costs? As I read things, if the spell's cost is considered part of the Battle equip ability, it still needs to get paid, as the effects negation does not interfere with it? however, if it's paid as an effect of the Battle equip (or something along those lines), the effects negation would also prevent the spell's cost payment, and Player A could reasonably attach it in a subsequent Battle action.
  EDIT -> for clarity: Player B reacts to the *Battle equip*, NOT to the other additional action granted by it that would allow player A to use an ability on the spell.
  A: Asked previously (by my pre-Rules Team self, no less!) here: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=95856&hilit=effortless+counterattack
  To answer your specific questions regarding costs:
  A) Since the Battle Equip player ability's only costs are targeting a Spell card in hand and choosing your performing unbowed opposed Shugenja, those are the only costs that would be required to be paid before Effortless Counterattack negates the Attaching effects, where you would then have to pay any gold cost associated with the Spell you targeted, if the Attaching effects hadn't have been negated.
  B) Yes, since the Spell card in hand is still in your hand, you may attempt to attach it again, as another use of the Battle Equip player ability later on in the battle. Ben Higgins, "Equip battle action's effects negated by Effortless CA", 27 Apr 2012
• Q: I was just playing my Unicorn Enlightenment deck today and I played the card "Skipping the Puddle". I tried using the ability to move my unit into a battle for a second time on the same unit (he was sent home) and was told that they could not move back in, and that I could only use the ability once per turn. I understood the card to mean that I gained the ability and that I could use it as many times per turn per person as I wished. As long as the criteria was met.
  Can someone please clarify how many time per turn and per person I may use this ability.
  Thanks in advance. Moto Qway Unicorn Clan Berserker
  A: All abilities are once per turn unless otherwise stated. This includes the ability granted by Skipping the Puddle. Jon Palmer, "Skipping the Puddle", 16 Feb 2012