Metsubushi
Legend of the Five Rings card from Seeds of Decay
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Ninja
- Card Text
- Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Ninja: Ranged 4 Attack. The next time this battle the enemy leader takes a Battle action, if it can legally target the Ninja, it must target him.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Seeds of Decay
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- It is often difficult for a ninja's opponent to discern which attacks are merely distractions.
- Artist
- Sergio Camarena
- Card Number
- 132
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I choose my Goju Sawaki to perform Metsubushi.
My opponent has 2 possible choices to play for his next battle actions:
a. He has a Retired Sensei in play to boost up his personalities force. b. He has a personality which can perform a Ranged Attack.
My question is: Does Metsubushi require my opponent to take a battle action that will target the performer of Metsubushi as in (b) or can he simply do (a) and ignore Metsubushi?
Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Ninja: Ranged 4 Attack. TheNEXT TIME this battle the enemy leader takes a Battle action, if it can legally target the Ninja, it must target him.
A: Metsubushi only forces the player to target your Personality if that Personality is a legal target, it does not force him to take an action which for which that Personality is a legal target. If he has an ability that cannot target your Personality, he may take it, and it will use up Metsubushi's requirement. Jon Palmer, "Metsubushi + next battle action", 16 Feb 2013 - Q: If I have a personality with the Arcane cloak of the Chameleons attached, and that personality performs Metsubushi, and there are other people in the army, at least one of which has an attachment... What happens?
Who/what is my opponent allowed to legally target with his next battle action?
Edit: what if the cloak is the only attachment in the army, but there are other personalities, and the guy with the cloak performs metsubushi? What can the opponent legally target with their next action?
Edit 2: what if the only attachments in the army are the cloak and another item on the same guy as the cloak, but there are other personalities in the army, and the guy with the cloak performs metsubushi? What can the opponent legally target with their next action?
A: The effects will cancel each other out, as described in Effects, Conditional choice restriction conflicts: When effects restrict choice based on a condition that forces choice or checks for other legal choices, conflicts and paradoxes are resolved by removing all such conflicting restrictions. This applies to positive restrictions (example: "This card must be chosen as a target" - effectively saying that no other cards can be chosen if this card is a legal target) and negative restrictions (example: "This card may not be chosen as a target if there are other legal targets.") Alex Jones, "Arcane Cloak + Metsubushi", 13 Nov 2012