Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang

Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City

Card Type

Celestial

Keywords

Unique, Fortune

Card Text

After your turn begins, you may choose your dead Personality and put him at the top of your deck.
Battle: Target your performing opposed Personality and discard this Celestial to give him +1F for each dead Personality in all players' discard piles. The Lords of Death have granted him strength. Negate the next card effect that bows, destroys, or moves him.

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: My opponent is attacking me with Hida Kaiji. I have the Imperial Favor. My opponent uses an action to discard Blessings of the Shi Tien Yen Wang to give Kaiji a force bonus, and to negate the next card effect that bows,destroys, or moves him. I attempt to use the Imperial Favor to send him home. Kaiji has the trait, "Before the first time each turn another player's action moves Kaiji: Negate his movement from that action." What happens? Obviously, Kaiji doesn't move, but, assuming this is my first attempt to move him, which of his negation effects are used up? I can see several different resolutions to the scenario, and all seem fairly plausible.
  Scenario 1) The Imperial Favor is not a card, and therefore would not ever trigger Blessings of the Shi Tien Yen Wang's negation. Kaiji's trait negates his movement, and the Blessing's negation remains intact. If this is the case, what if he were being moved by, say, Yoritomo Kanahashi's ability to send someone home?
  Scenario 2) Both negations activate at once, and neither is intact once the action is over.
  Scenario 3) Both negations attempt to resolve simultaneously, and the active player chooses the order in which they would resolve. If this is the case, would the effect chosen second remain intact? Or would both be used up regardless, since neither is an optional effect?
  Scenario 4) The effects trigger at different times, and only one would even check against the movement, leaving the other intact?
  Please help.
  A: The correct answer is A, as the Imperial Favor is not a card effect, and therefore does not trigger Blessings of Shi-Tien Yen-Wang.
  In most other similar situations, however, the correct answer is C, the active player would choose, since both come at point A in the timing sequence.
  In general, whenever two effects like this would both negate the same thing, the trigger of going home is now gone, the second effect would not be "used up" and would remain active. Jon Palmer, "Double negation", 8 Jan 2013
• Q: I try to kill Berseker with Battle action and my opponent reacts with Halls (delay). He plays Blessings' Battle action on his Berserker then. Will his Berseker die after this battle ends or maybe Blesssing will negate his death?
  Halls of the Forgotten Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets your Berserker: Delay its effects on him until after this battle ends.
  Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang Battle: Choose your performing opposed Personality and discard this card: The Lords of Death grant him strength. Give him +1F for each dead Personality in all players' discard piles. Negate the next card effect that bows, destroys, or moves him.
  A: Blessings will negate the death, if no other effect has triggered its negation prior. Jon Palmer, "Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang + Halls of the Forgotten", 28 Jul 2012
• Q: If a Personality who performed the Blessings' action is targetted by a card that has multiple effects (i.e. The Law's Strength) will the action negate the first effect (the movement) or all the card's effects (the destruction)?
  A: In this case it would only negate the movement, as the movement and destruction are separate effects. Jon Palmer, "Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang and multiple effects", 17 Apr 2012
• Q: Is the trait on Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang once per owners turn or once per game?
  [Mod Edit: Corrected card title, for easier Searching! -- MB2001]
  A: Triggered traits trigger every time the condition occurs.
  "After your turn begins" will trigger once at the beginning of each of your turns, while the Celestial is in play. Brook Cunningham, "Blessings of the Shi-Tien Yen-Wang", 15 Sep 2011