Abdication
Legend of the Five Rings card from A Line in the Sand
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Event
- Keywords
- Kharmic
- Card Text
- Reduce all Honor gains and losses from Holdings by 1 (minimum zero).
Open: Put this Event into play. Discard it before your next turn ends. You may target and dishonor a Crane Clan Personality. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
A Line in the Sand
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Though it has been long months since she stepped down, the abdication of the Jade Champion remains a matter of brisk discussion.
- Artist
- Danielle Storey
- Card Number
- 1
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: This came up in my testing recently, we defaulted to it being possible, but I'd like to know the correct ruling.
Suppose I have a Brilliant Cascade Inn. I resolve mercantile conflict, and my opponent resolved Abdication on his turn. I target a dishonored personality with printed PH of 1. What honor loss do I get?
My assumption: I am the active player so I choose the order the effects are applied. So I target the loss of 1, increase it to 2 with conflict, then apply abdication to lower it back to 1. Result: loss of 1.
My opponent's thought: Target his PH 1 individual, abdication reduces it to 0, then conflict tries to increase a 0 and cannot, because it is not a loss. Result: no loss and I look silly.
Which situation is correct? If neither, how does this action resolve?
Thank you.
A: These are both triggered effects with the same trigger, so the active player will choose the order in which they resolve. The loss would be 1 in this case, if you want it to be. Jon Palmer, "Abdication, holdings and additive bonuses", 9 Apr 2015