Iron and Stone
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Coming Storm
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Interrupt: Bow your target unbowed Follower or Personality. Give a Fear effect, Melee Attack, or Ranged Attack -2 strength, or -3 strength if this action bowed a Yojimbo or Crab Clan Personality.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Fate
- Story
- 2012 Return of the Grand Master - Dario Perri
Printings
The Coming Storm
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- The shadow-thing swatted the blade from his hands and unleashed unearthly screams, but Hida Osote did not abandon the Grand Master.
- Artist
- Asier Martinez Lopez
- Card Number
- 127
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I was playing against a player who controls Tsuruchi and he destroyed a token, making a ranged 2 to destroy my 2 force pers. So I used the card Iron and stone to reduce the ranged in 2. He says that he can destroy one more token to increase the ranged attack, like a interrupt, and this works too in cards with variable gold cost like Deliberations. I don't found this question in the rulebook so I'm asking, is this right?.
A: Well, here's the thing... your opponent IS taking Tsuruchi's action incorrectly, but more so than either of you realize.
After announcing the action, but before he does ANYTHING after the colon in the action (including destroying ANY tokens or choosing his targets for his Ranged Attack), that is when Interrupts are taken. You would have to play Iron and Stone before knowing how many tokens he will choose to destroy or what he will target.
Then, after you both pass any further Interrupts to the action, is when the effects begin to resolve, starting with him destroying tokens. Brook Cunningham, "Tsuruchi against Iron and Stone", 5 Sep 2014