Calculate Strength
Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Reaction: After another player's Personality wins a duel while facing one of yours, target the other player's Personality: Until the game ends, your Personalities have a +3 bonus to their duel stat while facing that Personality in a duel.
- Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Reign of Blood
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Impressive, Matabei," the watchful Scorpion whispered. "But will you do so well next time?"
- Artist
- Storn A. Cook
- Card Number
- 98
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I win a duel. My opponent plays Calculate Strength and curses my duelist. Now, if I start another duel, and play Shosuro Technique, does my Chi get raised to my opponents normal Chi, or to Chi+3?
A: Shosuro Technique gets played "when you enter a duel," and by that timing, you'd be opposing the Personality and have triggered the +3 bonus. The on-going trigger effect (+3 to a stat) would happen before you have to choose to pay your Reaction, so you can play Shosuro Technique to raise your Chi to the post-bonus (chi + 3) figure of the other Personality. Martin Lund, "Rules for 14 - 17 August 2004", 18 Aug 2004 - Q: So, after I defeat someone in a duel and my opponent reacts with Calculate Strength, and I then use Duel of Haiku, will Calculate Strength increase my opponent's personal honor above the normal max of 5?
A: Since Calculate Strength does not specifically override the rulebook Personal Honor cap of 5, it will increase their Personal Honor to a maximum of 5 only. Jon Palmer, "Calculate Strength and Duel of Haiku", 8 Dec 2011