Break the Line

Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target your performing unbowed Samurai or Bushi to bow a target enemy Shugenja or card with a Ranged Attack action.
Reaction: After an action on a Spell, Kiho, or Shugenja, or a Ranged Attack action, targets a card in your army, bow your target performing Samurai or Bushi in that army to negate the action's effects.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: We can't forget 'before targeting'.
  Example: Isawa Notodai (Exp): Reaction: Once per turn, *before you choose a target* for a ranged attack from your cards, allow that attack to target a Personality with Followers.
  2.) Select Targets During #2 is 'when' targets are being selected.
  Example: Break the Line: Reaction: *When* an innate ability, Spell, Kiho,or ranged attack action *targets* a card in your army, bow one of your Samurai or Bushi in this army to cancel the action.
  A: This is the timing that you see commonly with Balance in Nothingness, Shiba Danjuro, Flee the Darkness, and Turn of Fortune Martin Lund, "Rules for 25 June 2004", 28 Jun 2004
• Q: Danjuro, who got turned into a shugenja. Tsuruchi Hiro.
  My opponent targets Tsuruchi Hiro with Break the Line. Can I redirect Break the Line to Danjuro?
  A: Yes. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 May 2004", 27 May 2004
• Q: In other words, does the choice to bow a "card with a ranged attack" or "a shugenja" lock in when you play Break the Line?
  A: It is a targeting restriction, nothing more. You can choose any card that fits the criteria as a target. Nothing is "locked in" other than the designation of a target, and since you could have targeted Danjuro, you can be redirected to him. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 May 2004", 27 May 2004