Spiritual Coalescence

Legend of the Five Rings card from Torn Asunder

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle/Open: Destroy your performing Spirit Personality and target another Spirit Personality: Give it a permanent Force bonus equal to the performer's Force. It permanently copies the performer's abilities which do not themselves copy abilities. You may take an additional action.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Largely for clarification so I can link this to my friends when I finish my end of arc military kitsune deck.
  So I control two 2/2 Spirit token personalities with no base abilities.
  I play Unstoppable strike on one spirit (Spirit Token A).
  Spirit Token A then performs the battle action, destroying a personality.
  Spiritual Coalescence is then performed by spirit token A and grant his abilities to spirit token B
  Can spirit token B then use the ability granted to spirit token A by Unstoppable Strike?
  After the turn ends, does it still have the ability granted by Unstoppable Strike?
  A: Spirit B gets its own copy of the ability. This ability has not been used yet - the fact that the original ability has been used this turn does not affect whether or not the new copy can be used. Furthermore, the ongoing effect that creates this ability has a different duration to the ongoing effect that created the original ability: the new effect is permanent, so the ability will not go away at the end of the turn. Alex Jones, "Spiritual Coalescence + Unstoppable Strike", 20 Mar 2013
• Q: As a followup to this: viewtopic.php?p=1298921#p1298921 to which I got the following private answer back then:
  and to the new: Spiritual Coalescence
  What is the answer now?
  A: The answer would be the same.
  Per the rules on created cards, "If a sequence of effects from the same action or trait first puts a created card out of play, and subsequently refers to any aspect of that card, the state of the created card just before it left play is checked."
  If the spirit being destroyed is a created card, check its force and abilities immediately before it leaves play. Jon Palmer, "Checking stats of destroyed created personalities", 12 Feb 2013