Advance Position

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Khan's Defiance, Samurai Edition Banzai

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Recon

Card Text

Recon Open: Bow your target performing Scout to target a Province. During battles there, you have Reconaissance and after each resolution of an enemy player's action from a card in a unit, he discards a random card from his hand.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Advance Position 0G 3FV Recon Open: Bow your target Scout: Target a province. During battles at this province, after each resolution of an enemy player's action from a card in a unit, he discards a random card from his hand." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 119

Rules Q&A

• Q: If i play 2 copies of Advance Position enemy player has to discard 2 random cards from his hand every time he take action from cards in a unit?
  A: Yes. Each is a separate effect that is resolved separately. Zen Faulkes, "Multiple Advance Position", 13 Feb 2011
• Q: Can followers with the scout trait bow to pay the cost of recon strategies?
  For example, can Untested Scouts pay the cost of Advance Position.
  Advance Position Cost:
  0 Focus:
  3 Recon Open: Bow your target Scout: Target a province. During battles at this province, after each resolution of an enemy player's action from a card in a unit, he discards a random card from his hand.
  Untested Scouts Force/Chi:
  2 / 0 Ho/Co/PH:
  1 / 3 / - Focus:
  2 Scout Will only attach to a Samurai or Scout. This card has +1F while opposed. Recon Limited: Target a province. After engaging in a battle at the province's battlefield, you may take an additional Battle action to play a Terrain from your hand.
  Mod edit: Thread title. Pretty sure there is no such word as "Sout," at least not in L5R. -ZF]
  A: That depends on the ability. Some abilities require a Scout Personality, such as Scour the Earth (from Enemy of My Enemy); most, including all those released with a Celestial Edition bug (so far), only require a Scout, which can be a Personality or Follower - it's unlikely that a Spell, Item, Region, etc with the Scout keyword would be printed.
  Alex
  Edit: As has been pointed out, there's Lion Scout from A Perfect Cut and Yoshi no Shiryo from Broken Blades, a Holding and an Ancestor which could be chosen whenever a "Scout" is required and not a "Scout Personality". Alex Jones, "Followers with the Scout trait and Recon strategies", 8 Jul 2009