Takao Sensei

Legend of the Five Rings card from Road to Ruin

Card Type: Sensei
Province Strength: -1
Gold Production: +0
Starting Family Honor: +0
Keywords: Crane, Dragon, Lion, Phoenix, Scorpion, Spider
Card Text: Players must focus at least once in duels (if able). If your Fate deck is ever empty, shuffle your discard pile into your Fate deck. Your Personalities cannot refuse challenges.
Response, w: If you won a duel from the action, search your Fate discard pile, then deck, for a Ring, show it, and put it in your hand.
Legality: Shattered Empire, War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
Deck: Pre-Game

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Q: [ShE] Could someone describe the exact timing involved in playing Actions, Interrupts, and Responses?
I would like to take an action to issue a challenge during battle, use Takao Sensei to search for the Dark Ring of Fire, and then use the Dark Ring of Fire as a response to the challenge.
The Onyx/ShE rulebook just says this step takes place between resolve the action's effects, and discard the action. But, Interrupts are played all at once before resolving, aren't they? So, are Responses treated the same way? Or, am I wrong about how Interrupts work?
A: This is the action Sequence: Announce Pay costs Choose Targets Interrupts Resolve the action Responses.
Oh, and yes, you were wrong about Interrupts. They work the same as Responses, as we just described above. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 26 Sep 2025
Q: I think I remember someone ruling that you cannot fetch Ring of Fire with Takao Sensei and then play it by its own text (if you would have otherwise met the requirements), but i'm not sure why- wouldn't the duel action still technically be active after another response is used? Otherwise you could only ever Respond once to any action ever or does the RoF only care about the "check for winner" step of the duel, so when a Response happens its already past that window? if so that feels very strange
A: This one. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 26 Jun 2024