Suck the Marrow

Legend of the Five Rings card from Torn Asunder

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Maho, Plague

Card Text

Maho Open: Bow and destroy your performing Shugenja to target a Personality and give the target a -1F/-1C Poison token. Lose 3 Honor. Until the game ends, after each turn begins, give the target a -1F/-1C Poison token.

Focus Value

0

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Ok, so Hida Bob is being affected by Suck the Marrow and is getting a poison token every events phase. Eventually he dies from having 0 chi. I understand that the tokens leave the card when he goes to the discard pile. But what stops Hida Bob from continuing to accumulate more poison tokens while in the discard pile? Shouldn't he keep on getting poison tokens every events phase, even while in the discard pile? I can't find any rule that says cards in discard piles can't get tokens placed on them... Please let me know what I might be missing.
  A: I have updated the definition of Tokens: Tokens are not placed on cards in out of play areas.
  While the ongoing effect of Suck the Marrow continues while the Personality is in the discard pile, and will place tokens on him if he re-enters play, he does not gain tokens while in the discard pile. Alex Jones, "Suck the Marrow... Keeps sucking in the discard pile?", 21 Mar 2013
• Q: I wanted to request a clarification based on this ruling to make sure I am correct because I think it will come up eventually: viewtopic.php?p=1344008#p1344008
  Is it actually possibly to save a personality from Chi Death with Feign Death if that personality has 2C or higher?
  So take a Personality with 2C. You play Suck the Marrow, its action resolves (gives the -1F/-1C) and sets up a continuous (or is it delayed?) effect to give -1F/-1C. So to my understanding, this is similar to Isawa Fosuta - exp ability in CE.
  It was ruled in CE (viewtopic.php?p=1153810#p1153810) that you could not react with Udo to a personalities Chi death destruction from Fosuta because the action generally had resolved several turns earlier.
  Does the same apply to FD for a personality with 2C or higher? FD looks for the resolution of an action that destroyed the personality, but for a 2C or higher doesn't the resolution of Suck the Marrow happen on a previous turn and is therefore no longer a valid trigger for FD?
  Thank you
  A: Unless the Personality's Chi is 1 when Suck the Marrow is played (reducing them to 0 as part of its resolution), Feign Death will not be able to be played in reaction to destruction from Suck the Marrow. If another effect reduces the Personality to 0 later (say, a 4C Personality with 3 Suck the Marrow tokens is hit with Frozen in Place), you will be able to Feign Death them then, which will remove all of the tokens but not the ongoing effect of Suck the Marrow. Jon Palmer, "Re: Suck the Marrow and Feign Death", 8 Mar 2013