An Honored Guest

Legend of the Five Rings card from Thunderous Acclaim

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kharmic

Card Text

Interrupt: Permanently give +1PH to a target Personality the action is Recruiting. You may Proclaim him even if he does not have your Clan Alignment.

Focus Value

4

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I control a Shugenja with Look into the Soul attached. Can I then Proclaim a Courtier without my Clan Alignment using An Honored Guest?
  Look into the Soul Kharmic You may not Proclaim Courtiers. Air Interrupt, [BOW]: Reduce each Honor gain from the action (to a minimum of 0) by half this Shugenja's Chi, rounded down.
  An Honored Guest Kharmic Interrupt: Permanently give +1PH to a target Personality the action is Recruiting. You may Proclaim him even if he does not have your Clan Alignment.
  A: An Honored Guest gives you a limited permission that modifies Proclaim's normal restriction on the Personality needing to be a member of your Clan. It will not overcome a more blanket prohibition such as Look Into the Soul's. Jon Palmer, "Look into the Soul vs An Honored Guest", 24 Jul 2015
• Q: does "an honored Guest" count for your proclaim for the turn? or is it an adtional proclaim?
  A: It's your one, not an additional. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 26 Aug 2023
• Q: Hmm...the question really is, does the phrase "even if he has a different clan alignment" require you to have a clan alignment to begin with. I submit that it doesn't limit the ability granted to Proclaim. The wording does not seem to be restrictive because of "even if". Not sure though. Hehehe Otherwise, you can't even use An Honored Guest to target unaligned personalities. Sorry "does not have your clan alignment".
  A: Well, an Unaligned Personality certainly doesn't have your clan alignment.
  But AHG doesn't say "even if he has a different"; if it did, then I agree by the CR definition of "different" you would have to have one to compare it to (and so would he, thus making the card not work with Unaligned guys either, as TbT says above). However, the card actually says, "even if he does not have your". I say my ruling above is correct, as the card would have to explicitly say "different" or "not the same" to fall under that part of the CR.
  While you're here...
  Yes? 🙂
  Unstoppable. How does the CR define it? In particular, does it stop Reactions, or just Interrupts?
  Can't be Interrupted. Reactions still technically are legal. Haha.
  Cool. So Responses would be, too. (For those playing Onyx.)
  Probably wouldn't have added it, if Onyx had ever come out either, since a Response generally wouldn't be something that would "Stop" something. Retroactive negation is ugly and bad.
  Yeah
  There could be an arguement for adding Legacy text about, like, Reactions before resolution or Reactions that change targeting/negate, but... eh... why complicate things? Reactions good, Interrupts bad, full stop? shrug Again, a discussion for once Rules docs are on Oracle.
  _nods_
  No As an ability type. Reese had insisted on ditching Reactions in Ivory, replacing them with Interrupts.
  Reactions can be written to react before or after any trigger. Interrupts have a specific window in the action sequence when they are taken. IIRC, that was: Declare/Pay costs/Choose targets/Take Interrupt actions/Resolve effects/Cleanup Although "Choose Targets" may have been merged into "Resolve Effects" in Ivory, I forget. Anyway. Cf Feign Death... Emperor: Twenty Festivals: It's bad enough that you can no longer React to a Personality being destroyed by Battle Resolution, but now you have to decide before the action resolves whether or not to play Feign Death. With Onyx, he finally agreed with me that Responses were also required.
  You're telling me. Alex Jones and Brook Cunningham, "Oracle of the Void #rules", 14 Feb 2022