Study the Wheel

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gates of Chaos

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Void

Card Text

Void Limited, w: Turn a card in a Province face-up (if needed) and give it Kharmic. (Repeatable Limited, : Discard a Kharmic card from your Province and refill it face-up.)

Focus Value

2

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: In reference to viewtopic.php?f=59&t=109354&p=1435470
  Per the CR
  Per the Ruling
  Cardinal Rule 1
  It seems there is a bit of a paradox:
  I have Alchemy Lab and Study the Wheel in play.
  Study the Wheel
  Alchemy Lab
  I use Alchemy Lab to increase the [2] in the Kharmic reminder text of Study the Wheel to a [3];
  The text of Study the Wheel now conflicts with the Comprehensive Rules for Kharmic
  From CR
  The Cardinal Rule #1 is interesting in that it refers to "the" Comprehensive Rules as a single body and NOT specifically the rules within that body that are in conflict.
  So the way it is currently worded is that if a card conflicts with the CR, then I am given permission to not follow the entire CR.
  If that were not the case then the correct wording should have said
  With the example given we have a conflict with the CR, Cardinal Rule 1 kicks in to override the CR. The ruling tries to kick in an say no, you have to ignore the reminder text when comparing to the CR. However, this ruling is in the CR, and per the cardinal rule are NOT followed. It is a very interesting paradox since no matter what you put in the CR to try and fix this, the new card text will still prevail. Changing the Cardinal Rule #1 as I suggested would be the only way to fix the problem.
  A: Firstly, you quote the description of the Reminder Text: Reminder text ... carries no rules implications.
  Then you quote Cardinal Rule #1: Something that changes one aspect of a rule does not by itself change any other aspects of the rule.
  Card text that ignores a rule only ignores that rule, not any other rule.
  So, in this case, while you could argue that the Alchemy Lab increases the gold icon in the reminder text of Study the Wheel to 3, this does nothing to let it ignore the rule that "Reminder text carries no rules implications." Alex Jones, "Reminder Text Paradox", 26 Aug 2014