Never Without a Weapon
Legend of the Five Rings card from Aftermath
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Battle,
: Discard a card to create a Weapon Item with a Force Modifier equal to the discarded card's Focus Value and attach it to your target Personality. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Aftermath
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Crab-san, I am not interested in listening to you blather about your clan's 'slighted honor.' If you will not let me drink in peace, you will give me the satisfaction of a rousing brawl, and as long as I have a hand, I can find a weapon." - Mirumoto Hatsuto
- Artist
- Gong Studios
- Card Number
- 134
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Hi Rules Team,
A topic popped up on the L5R Facebook page that piqued my interest and I thought to ask here about it. I've tried searching "never without a weapon" but the search never returns (too many common search terms?), and "gold costs" pulls up WAY too many results to be useful. So, the question:
Let's assume that I have Never Without a Weapon in my hand. I pay the 5 gold cost requirement for it and then discard the card Focus for a 5FV value, creating a 5F weapon.
What is the gold cost of the weapon that's now attached to my target personality? Is it 0GC, because the attached card doesn't have a printed Gold Cost? Is it 5GC, because of the gold I paid to create it? Basically, how do we properly determine the gold cost of Items that we pay to create, even though they don't have a printed gold cost? Thanks!
A: Unless set by the effect that created the card, a created card's Gold Cost is 0. (CR, page 47, see Created Cards) Ben Higgins, "What is the Gold Cost of created items?", 11 Nov 2014