Blood Calls to Blood
Legend of the Five Rings card from Dawn of the Empire
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Reaction: Before a target Personality you control at the current battlefield is destroyed by another player's card or by battle or duel resolution: Remove him from the game. Permanently give this battlefield's province a strength bonus equal to his base Force or base Chi
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Dawn of the Empire
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- A Kami on his knees, an eternal promise.
- Artist
- Anthony Grabski
- Card Number
- 69
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Blood Calls to Blood Reaction: Before a Personality you control in the current battle is destroyed by another player's card or by battle or duel resolution: Target the Personality. Remove him from the game. Permanently increase the strength of the current Province by his printed Force or printed Chi.
The straighforward answer seems to be that it works too late, the effects would resolve but the province falls.
BUT, if you read the rulebook as it is, it seems you 'check' for province destruction after you decide who wins (after you decide to go down the path marked 'If the Attacker's force total exceeds the Defender's'), and then the defenders are destroyed and the province is 'checked' for destruction and destroyed all at the same time.
A: <SNIP> Martin Lund, "Rules for 20 December 2004", 25 Dec 2004