Labor Crew

Legend of the Five Rings card from Twenty Festivals, Promotional–Twenty Festivals

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

2

Gold Production

2

Keywords

Fortification

Card Text

(Fortifications attach, bowed, to the Province from which they entered play.)
Interrupt, w: Negate the movement into an attacking army of a target Personality at any location.

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Erratum

Errata'd on release.

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: It's not really question. Rather rules/design note.
  Since introduction of Interrupts they have to fulfil RoL. Which, with combination with Forifications mechanics, literally means that Labor Crew can only prevent movement from current battlefield (at province with LC attached) to another battlefield, as you can only target cards at current battlefield unless specified different. Labor Crew text cannot, according to my knowledge of current rules and ruling history, qualified as such specification. Especially that it is technically possible to use it against "movement to other attackign army from current battlefield" (e.g. with Ring of Water), so it does not suggest in it's wording that targeted Personality has to (or even can) be home or elsewhere.
  Except, of course, commons sense and estimation of card "powerlevel" - it's hard to believe that designers intended this fortification to be only tool of preventing attackers escape to another battlefield I suspect that phrase "at/from any location" should be inserted to make this Holding work as intended (of course I do not know real intentions behind this card, but as a L5R player I can suspect it).
  A: Errata has been issued to Labor Crew. Alex Jones, "Labor Crew vs Rule of Location", 19 May 2015
• Q: I've noticed that some fortifications from 20 Festivals have a new rules reminder: (Fortifications attach, bowed, to the Province from which they entered play.) for example Labor Crew.
  How will that affect older fortifications like Poorly Placed Garden that has a different reminder: (Fortifications attach, straightened, to the Province from which they entered play.) ?
  Will it enter play straightened or bowed?
  A: In 20F, Fortifications will enter play bowed by default (this is on the list of Rules changes). This will retroactively affect any older Fortifications, and may make reminder text obsolete (such as that on Poorly Placed Garden). Jon Palmer, "Fortifications - new rules reminder", 5 Mar 2015