Conservation

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

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Courage

Card Text

Interrupt: Each of the action's Melee and Ranged Attacks has -1 strength, or -3 strength if its target has Armor attached.
Open: Show one or two target attachments in your hand. Shuffle them into your Fate deck. Draw cards equal to the number you showed plus one.

Focus Value

4

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Just needed some clarification on how the interrupt affects melee and ranged attacks.
  Conservation
  Courage
  Interrupt: Each of the action's Melee and Ranged Attacks has -1 strength, or -3 strength if its target has Armor attached. Open: Show one or two target attachments in your hand. Shuffle them into your Fate deck. Draw cards equal to the number you showed plus one.
  Example:
  -Player A declares a Ranged 3 attack from their target personality, and interrupts with Ranged 2 attack from a follower in the same unit.
  -After Player B opts to pass, Player A interrupts the now Ranged 5 attack with Unholy Strike to increase it to a Ranged 7
  -Player B finally interrupts the Ranged 7 with Conservation
  What is the end result of the ranged attack?
  Would it simply result in a final Ranged 6 attack or would it become a Ranged 5 attack ((3-1)+(2-1)+2)?
  Thanks!
  A: It reduces the strength of the overall ranged attack, so it would become a ranged 6 (or 4 if the target has Armor attached) Jon Palmer, "Clarification on Conservation", 1 May 2015