Otomo Bureaucrat
Legend of the Five Rings card from The New Order
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 6
- Gold Production
- 5
- Keywords
- Imperial, Retainer
- Card Text
- w: Produce 5 Gold.
Political Tireless Interrupt: Choose an Honor gain or loss from another player's action and reduce it to 2. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
The New Order
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- Though the conflict between the heirs brewed, the Otomo refused to note it in any of their scrolls. This struggle would never exist in Rokugani history.
- Artist
- Stefano Baldo
- Card Number
- 11
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Can Otomo Bureaucrat reduce the honor gain from proclaiming?
Can Look into the Soul?
If I use Otomo Bureaucrat to reduce a gain to 2, can I then use Look into the Soul on a 4c personality to reduce it to 0?
If yes, can the honor gain then be increased by anything, since it is now a gain of 0?
A: The honour gain from Proclaiming is from the Proclaim action, so Otomo Bureaucrat may be used to reduce the gain to 2.
Look Into the Soul creates an indefinite conditional effect to reduce the gain, and Otomo Bureaucrat creates a delayed effect. These are both applied in step C of the Timing Conflicts sequence, in an order decided by the active player. Since you may only Proclaim on your own turn, I would expect you to apply the reduction from Look Into the Soul first, and then Otomo Bureaucrat, since if you use apply the Otomo Bureaucrat's reduction first, Look Into the Soul could then reduce it further.
During step C, while the active player is applying "triggered traits, delayed effects, indefinite conditional effects, and triggered rulebook effects", the gain is still considered a gain, so that if one effect reduces it to 0, another effect can still increase it above 0. However, once all such effects have been applied, if the gain has been reduced to 0, it no longer exists as a gain, and no effects that are triggered by gaining honour are applied. Alex Jones, "Otomo Bureaucrat/Look into the Soul", 2 Dec 2014