Aranai's Armor

Legend of the Five Rings card from A Line in the Sand

Card Type

Item

Force

+2

Chi

+0

Gold Cost

4

Keywords

Armor, Destined

Card Text

This Personality has Resilient.
Interrupt: After you Equip this Item, rehonor this Personality, and you may target and rehonor another Personality.

Focus Value

1

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)

Deck

Fate

Story

2013 Kotei Winner - Dennis Dreischmeyer

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I was just wondering on the ability of Aranai's Armor granting Resilient and how it plays out during Battle Resolution.
  Aranai's Armor: This Personality has Resilient.
  Resilient: "The Resilient keyword means that, once per game per card, the card is not destroyed by the rulebook effects of battle resolution; that is, if its side loses or it ties. Its attached cards are still destroyed normally." (From Comprehensive Rules)
  Now the armor itself does not have Resilient, so when your army is destroyed it also gets destroyed. Since the keyword is not given to the personality permanently, how can it prevent the personality from being destroyed? The card would not be attached to the personality anymore since ALL cards gets destroyed simultaneously, NOT consecutively. Destroyed cards immediately have NO abilities or traits because they are removed from play, so how can the item save someone after it gets destroyed?
  A: All cards destroyed by a battle's resolution are destroyed simultaneously, as you point out. However, note that effects, such as the Rules for Resilient, which are triggered before a card is destroyed, are triggered before any of these cards is destroyed.
  Thus, the Personality's Resilient keyword takes effect, negating his destruction, before the Armour is destroyed. Alex Jones, "Aranai's Armor + Resilient", 22 Apr 2015