Master of Puppets
Legend of the Five Rings card from Onyx Edition, Shattered Empire
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Spell
- Gold Cost
- 2
- Keywords
- Maho
- Card Text
- Interrupt, w: If the action is targeting a
card, it targets a different legal card of your choice instead, which may be a target in an army that would be legal if you were taking the action. Lose 2 Honor if you do not (now) control the target. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Shattered Empire, War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Onyx Edition
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "You will see. More is all you need."
- Artist
- Felipe Gaona
- Card Number
- 266
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Shattered Empire
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "You will see. More is all you need."
- Artist
- Felipe Gaona
- Card Number
- 265
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rules Q&A
- Q: [ShE] So, if Ryusei attempts to duel someone, and then that player uses Master of Puppets to redirect to a Shadowlands personality the Crab player controls, is that legal? Like, by the wording of the cards, it seems like it should be, but I seem to recall there being some kind of issue with dueling a personality in your own army?
But, Master of Puppets says you can target as if it were part of your army. So... just wanted to check on that. I feel like there a few different ways it could be resolved.
A: So, yes, Master of Puppets will allow you to change the target as if you were taking the action, so it will allow you to change the target to a Shadowlands Personality in Ryusei's own army controlled by her controller because they're an "enemy" from your perspective, but then the challenge/duel will fail because of the Rule that two Personalities in a duel must have different controllers. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 7 Feb 2026 - Q: Can you Master of Puppets to redirect the initial sacrifice to Overwhelmed to your opponent and then also make them suffer the effect normally?
A: No. Master of Puppet's extra "as if" clause lets you bounce an opponent's action to one of his own cards that could be a target if it was your action, like a Ranged Attack. It cannot let you bounce your own action targeting your own card to one of his.
I will grant you MoP does appear to be missing the word "legal" between "different" and "Shadowlands", but it is implicit insofar as the entire rest of the clause about the action being allowed to target an otherwise non-legal target would be pointless. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 14 Nov 2024