Carpenter Shrine
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Coming Storm
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 2
- Gold Production
- 2
- Keywords
- Fortification, Temple
- Card Text
- (Fortifications attach to the Province from which they entered play.)
This Fortification enters play bowed.
w: Produce 2 Gold.
Open, w: Gain 1 Honor. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
The Coming Storm
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- Few places have as many shrines to the dead as The Great Carpenter Wall.
- Artist
- Chris Ostrowski
- Card Number
- 7
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Your non-Fortification Holdings enter play for 1 more Gold. Each Province you assigned a Personality to defend or with a Cavalry unit attacking it has +1 strength for each Fortification attached to it, and has a maximum strength equal to its printed strength +4
Hypothetical situation:
I have 6 base province strength and have two provinces with the following attached:
Province A has three Defensive Memorials and one Carpenter Shrine attached giving it a province strength of 12 Province B has two Musha Gaeshi and two Carpenter Shrines attached giving it a province strength 12
My opponent attacks both provinces. I chose to defend the one with the Gaeshis and leave the Defensive Memorials undefended. Now my question is thus: The sensei says that my maximum province strength is base (6) plus four. Now because there is a comma and not a period on the last line of the sensei's trait does the province strength cap only apply if I choose to defend a province? Would my province with the three Defensive Memorials still be rocking a nice robust 12 province strength?
Thanks!
A: The province you don't defend would have a strength of 12.
The criteria at the start of the sentence apply to each of the remaining clauses. Alex Jones, "Dijuro Sensei", 23 Feb 2015