Serenity
Legend of the Five Rings card from The New Order
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Courtesy: This Strategy's Ranged Attack has +1 strength. (Courtesy traits do not take effect if you went first.)
Unstoppable Battle,
: Target your unbowed Samurai. Ranged Attack equal to his Personal Honor. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The New Order
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Her heart pounded in her ears and her breath hitched. The world faded away for one glorious moment as the arrow loosed, and it rushed back in a flood of blood.
- Artist
- Jeff Porter
- Card Number
- 139
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Hello,
I play an unstoppable death, for example Serenity, and kill my opponent's personality. Can he interrupt with A Good Death?
I'm not really sure aout when the unstoppable trigger ends, and if a Good Death is on the action timing, or the death timing. My guess is you can't.
A Good Death Interrupt: If the action is another player's, after it destroys your defending Follower or Personality, give your target Personality +2F and Resilient, and gain 2 Honor. (Once per game per card, a Resilient card does not die in battle resolution.)
Serenity Unstoppable Battle, : Target your unbowed Samurai. Ranged Attack equal to his Personal Honor. (Other players cannot Interrupt Unstoppable actions.)
Thank you!
A: Other players cannot Interrupt your Unstoppable actions.
To answer your question about timing... Unlike Reactions, Interrupts are only played in the Interrupt step of the action they're interrupting. If A Good Death were a Reaction, you would play it during the action's Resolution, (immediately) after the Personality is destroyed.
However, with Interrupts, the trigger isn't a statement of when the action is played: instead, it's a statement of when to apply the delayed effect created by the Interrupt.
Note that not all Interrupts have an explicit trigger like this, nor do they all create delayed effects. For example, Absolution, as well as having no explicit trigger, negates all the effects of the action, which technically is a type of ongoing effect. Similarly, Devastating Betrayal may create an instantaneous effect, immediately changing the target of the action. Alex Jones, "A Good Death interrupting Unstoppable Death", 23 Feb 2015