Reinforced Parangu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Ivory Edition, The Currency of War, Onyx Edition, Promotional–Ivory

Card Type

Item

Force

+2

Chi

+0

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Weapon, One-Handed, Sword

Card Text

Battle: Fear 2 (Bow a target enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers, with 2 or lower Force).

Focus Value

2

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Following this topic : http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=108336&p=1427032&hilit=Oneiyara#p1427032
  1/ What is the reason why "any attempt to combine this Fear with another Fear effect will fail"? Do you mean that it will be illegal to Interrupt with them because of the Good Faith Rule?
  According to Combining rules (CR, p 45-46) the falling of the combined effect as a consequence of a target becoming illegal for this effect is not stated. There is only the obligation of a target which is legal for all combined attack effects :
  2/ So what about theses situations, if Oneiyara's Battle is combined with other Fear effects?
  Example 1 : You use a Oneiyara's duel action as a Battle action, and Interrupt with Tested Blade (attached to Oneiyara)'s : - if you win, the Oneiyara's duel action Fear effect will be increased by Oneiyara's chi - if you lose, ... Tested Blade's Fear effect is combined with Oneiyara's duel action Fear effect, but it can only target an "enemy Follower or Personality".
  Example 2 : You use a Oneiyara's duel action as a Battle action [no Follower attached anywhere], and Interrupt with Reinforced Parangu (attached to Oneiyara)'s : - if you win, the Oneiyara's duel action Fear effect will be increased by Reinforced Parangu's Fear 2. - if you lose, ... Reinforced Parangu's Fear effect is combined with Oneiyara's duel action Fear effect, but it can only target an "enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers".
  Example 3 : Same of 2, but this time Oneiyara has an attached Follower.
  According to the above quoted part of CR, it seems to me that if Oneiyara lose the duel, he would still not be a legal target for his own Fear effect in any of these situations, because the target has to be legally a legal target for the combined Fear effect, and that Oneiyara is not an "enemy" personality.
  Thank you for clarifications.
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  [Tested Blade] Battle, w: Fear equal to this Personality's Chi that may target a Personality with Followers (Bow a target enemy Follower or Personality with Force equal to or lower than the Fear's strength).
  [Reinforced Parangu] Battle: Fear 2 (Bow a target enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers, with 2 or lower Force).
  A: 1. The effects will fail because in general, the effect you are attempting to combine with (Tested Blade) cannot target Oneiyara. Therefore, he will only be hit by the strength of his Fear effect, which can target him specifically.
  2. Example 1 - if you win, the Fear will be combined with Tested Blade and may only target an enemy Personality. If you lose, the Fear may only target Oneiyara, so the combining will fail and only the duel action's Fear will hit Oneiyara.
  Example 2 - Same. If you win, combine as normal; if you lose, do not combine when you target Oneiyara.
  Example 3 - Whether you win or lose, the combining of the Fear effect will fail as the Personality is not a legal target for the combining effect. Jon Palmer, "Oneiyara vs personalities with followers", 19 Jul 2014