Relocating the Court

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Coming Storm

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Political Battle: Bow your target unbowed Courtier. Each other player targets a Personality he controls (if able). Move home all targets. A target player gains or loses 1 Honor.

Focus Value

1

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: This question came up tonight, and whilst we ruled it version A earlier the more I consider the less sure I am.
  I announce Relocating The Court when defending. In the pay costs can I
  A - pay 2 gold so when I have bowed my courtier that my opponent has to choose the Abbot when he targets his personality? Or
  B - I have no opportunity to ever pay 2 gold so my opponent could not target The Abbotveven if he wanted? Or
  C - something else?
  Thanks Az
  A: If you pay the 2G, the Targeting Paradoxes section makes it so the Abbot must be targeted. Jon Palmer, "The Abbot - Relocating the Court", 27 Mar 2015
• Q: Will the trait on Sulphurous Swamps trigger multiple times if multiple personalities are moved home from an action? E.g. Relocating the Court in a multiplayer game. The wording "after each time" on the trait is not clear whether it means each use of the action and/or each Personality moved.
  Thanks!
  Sulphurous Swamps "Players discard a card after each time one of their own actions moves a Personality home"
  A: Per tuppence one card, per person, per trip.
  Rather more prosaically: the trait will trigger once for each Personality moved, each time that Personality is moved. Alex Jones, "Sulphurous Swamps and multiple triggers", 9 Dec 2014
• Q: It can't be "may target" because then it wouldn't work as send-home since your opponent would never choose to. While the italics seem to be out of place for rules text I also don't see what they're a reminder for in this instance. The ruling also kills this card in multiplayer (when it seems it should be at its best due to multiple targeting) because it would require every single player had a unit in the battle in order to function.
  Perhaps the card needs to be given errata to have non-italic text instead of changing the ruling, but something seems out of place in intent versus execution on this one.
  A: Yes, the reminder text seems to imply a functionality that is not there under the rules, and for that, we apologize. Unfortunately, as reminder text, it should be ignored when critically reading the ability, and applying the rules too it.
  As for the multiplayer application, you say ruin, and I would say it just makes it more situational. I agree that the cards currently has very limited application in tradition and War of Honor style multiplayer games, but I would counter that with saying I think it has much more application in Siege format multiplayer, as many of us will experience at Gen Con and soon after in our FLGS. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court and targetting", 5 Aug 2014
• Q: Also, Ryushi, I emailed you regarding another ruling and haven't heard back, do you check the address the board email function goes to? Thanks.
  A: I'll go look for that, and reply back to you. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court and targetting", 5 Aug 2014
• Q: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=109242#p1434235
  Political Battle: Bow your target unbowed Courtier. Each other player targets a Personality he controls (if able). Move home all targets. A target player gains or loses 1 Honor.
  Surely the "(if able)" clause means it is NOT mandatory targeting?
  A: (If able) is in italics, and is reminder text, so has no rules bearing whatsoever.
  If the targeting was optional, we would have used the "May target" wording. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court and targetting", 30 Jul 2014
• Q: Can I play Relocating the Court at a battle where my opponent controls no Personalities?
  A: Yes. The Good Faith Rule only checks to see if cards you target are there. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court and targetting", 29 Jul 2014
• Q: If I can, does his inability to target cause the subsequent effects to fail?
  Specifically, can I play Relocating the Court unopposed, bowing and sending home my Courtier, and cause the Honor gain/loss?
  A: Since all further effects and targeting fail once an action fails to find a non-optional target as per Step D of Taking Actions (CR, page 27), your Courtier would not move home and there would be no honor loss nor gain. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court and targetting", 29 Jul 2014
• Q: Does Relocating the Court move the courtier you bowed home?
  A: Yes. All targets means both the Courtier you chose and the Personalities each opponent chose. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court", 2 Jul 2014
• Q: Also do the targets have to be at the current battle?
  A: That is correct. There is nothing in this card's effects that allows you to break the Rule of Location. Ben Higgins, "Relocating the Court", 2 Jul 2014