Into the Wastes

Legend of the Five Rings card from Aftermath, Twenty Festivals

Card Type

Event

Card Text

Engage: You have the first opportunity in this battle to pass or take a Battle action, which must come from a card in a unit.

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Into the Wastes Engage: You have the first opportunity in this battle to pass or take a Battle action, which must come from a card in a unit.
  Naval Engage: If you are the Attacker, you have the first opportunity to take a Battle action, which must come from a card in a Naval Personality’s unit. Passing that action does not count toward ending the action round.
  If a player attacks with a personality that has Naval and the defender uses Into the Wastes what happens? Which of these effects has the priority?
  A: The rules under Timing Conflicts cover what happens when two or more effects are triggered simultaneously: these can be delayed effects, indefinite conditional effects or triggered traits.
  However, Into the Wastes and Naval (and similar abilities such as Sneak Attack) don't create a delayed effect triggered by, say, the start of the Combat Segment: instead they create ongoing effects which change who gets the first opportunity to act in the action round. These are not covered by Timing Conflicts (as there isn't one), but instead by the text under Continuous effect conflicts: With two effects of equal specificity, the effect applied later overcomes the effect applied earlier.
  You'll note, of course, that this section refers to "Continuous Effects", not "Continuous and Ongoing Effects" - I'll get this fixed. Alex Jones, "Into the Wastes vs. Naval", 3 Sep 2015
• Q: Engage: You have the first opportunity in this battle to pass or take a Battle action, which must come from a card in a unit.
  Does this have to happen in the province that the event is in or can it be used for any province?
  A: Events are neither cards in units nor Fortifications, and so are not subject to the first part of the Rule of Location. Alex Jones, "Into the Wastes", 4 Aug 2015
• Q: I'm a bit fuzzy on the power of Hojatsu Sensei because of the plurality.
  Interrupt, w: Challenges created by the action and issued by your Personality with a Weapon bow the other Personality after he loses the duel or refuses the challenge.
  Do I target a Personality when he issues a duel and then any time he issues a duel that turn it will have the added effect of the bowing? Or is it a one off? The part where it says Challenges (plural) makes me wonder.
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  Into the Wastes (Event) Timing question' Engage: You have the first opportunity in this battle to pass or take a Battle action, which must come from a card in a unit.
  If my opponent is attacking me and I have this event ready to go but then he uses sneak attack. If I then pop it does my action take precedence over his since I acted last? Also while I'm here Defender always acts first by default correct? Even in engage. (This is no doubt in the rulebook somewhere)
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  Kata's
  I couldn't find them in the rule book. Do they stay in play the rest of the game until I replace them?
  A: Interrupts are only taken to interrupt another action, and (generally) all effects of an Interrupt will refer only to that action: Hojatsu Sensei only effects challenges created by the action it interrupts. Note that it doesn't require you to target anyone, it just checks whether the Personality issuing such a challenge has a weapon. Note also that an action can create more than one challenge, for example Heroic Sacrifice.
  If more than one Engage action attempts to change who gets the first opportunity to act in the Combat Segment, only the last such effect will be applied. Your Into the Wastes will trump your opponent's earlier Sneak Attack - although he could play another Sneak Attack and regain the first opportunity.
  As described on p8 of the Reference Rules, the Defender has the first opportunity to act in the Engage Segment.
  Katas have no special rules. Cards which enter play generally stay in play until some effect removes them from play. The only rulebook effect which does this is the "Discard Terrains" step at the end of a battle, where Strategy cards (Terrains and, in Legacy, Formations) in play at the battlefield at discarded. Katas, however, enter play in your home, so they are not affected. Alex Jones, "Hojatsu Sensei, Into the Wastes, and Kata?", 17 Mar 2014