Blade of Champions
Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City, Three Dynasties
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +3
- Chi
- +1
- Gold Cost
- 5
- Keywords
- Unique, Weapon
- Card Text
- Reaction: When a Battle action would target a card in this unit, bow this card: The action targets another of your cards instead, if legal.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial), Three Dynasties
- Deck
- Fate
- Story
- To our World, European, North American, and Arc Champions
Printings
Second City
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "This sword was forged in honor of the new Governor, long may he reign." - Akodo Tsudoken
- Artist
- Gong Studios
- Card Number
- 85
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Three Dynasties
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- Few blades can match the prestige of its legacy.
- Artist
- Gong Studios
- Card Number
- 314
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rules Q&A
- Q: I have a Shinjo Tselu with a Blade of Champions attached. If my opponent targets him with an action and I change the target using the Blade, will he still discard a card?
A: Blade of Champions reacts when an action would target, and makes the action target another card instead. Since another card is targeted instead of Tselu, Tselu is not targeted, and therefore his trait does not activate. Jon Palmer, "Shinjo Tselu and Blade of Champions", 12 Mar 2013 - Q: Broken Alliance: "Battle/Open: Target an attachment and pay Gold equal to its Gold Cost minus two: Destroy it." Blade of Champions: "Reaction: When a Battle action would target a card in this unit, bow this card: The action targets another of your cards instead, if legal."
The rules question is obvious. If I use Broken Alliance during the Open phase to destroy Blade of Champions, is it considered a Battle action (due to "Battle" being printed on its ability), and thus can Blade of Champions redirect it?
A: Fortunately, the answer is also obvious:
Abilities and actions, Designators: "Abilities with two designators, such as “Open/Battle,” count as having both individual designators, but the action they generate has only one designator, according to when the action was taken."
A Battle/Open action taken during the Action Phase would not provide a valid trigger for Blade of Champions. Brook Cunningham, "Broken Alliance & Blade of Champions", 15 Mar 2012 - Q: The text on Blade of Champions reads:
Reaction: When a Battle action would target a card in this unit, bow this card: The action targets another of your cards instead, if legal.
My question is, Who decides what the new target is, providing there is a legal alternative?
A: This is the phrasing used for a change in targeting - the new target is chosen by the person activating the ability (the controller of Blade of Champions) Jon Palmer, "Blade of Champions", 12 Nov 2011