Machinations

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gathering Storms, Three Dynasties

Card Type: Strategy
Gold Cost: 0
Card Text: Kolat Open, or : Discard a card from your hand to draw two cards. Lose 1 Honor, or bow your target Courtier or Merchant to make a target player gain or lose 2 Honor.
Focus Value: 1
Legality: Shattered Empire, Three Dynasties
Deck: Fate

Printings

Rarity: Fixed
Flavor Text: The discovery of Governor Ninsei's body in the aftermath caused first grief, then unrest and anger when signs were found pointing to Minoko's men as the culprits.
Artist: (PD) Utagawa Kunisada - "Secret Message Act. 7 - Chushingura"
Card Number: 42
Publisher: Onyx Lives
Publisherurl: https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home

Rarity: Fixed
Flavor Text: "Seiki played the game, and he lost. Such is the nature of things." - Hoji Misato
Artist: (PD) Utagawa Kunisada - "Secret Message Act. 7 - Chushingura"
Card Number: 424
Publisher: Onyx Lives
Publisherurl: https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home

Q: [ShE] I have a ring of void in hand, but then I play Machinations and discard it another one, do I have a "split second" to react with the ring of voids trait to put it into play since its trait and not a reaction before drawing the two cards from machinations or do I have to draw the two before? (assuming I had the right number of cards in play for ring of void to come in when I have "two less" from machinations [ShE] Pierce the spirit, I am a mantis player. I dont see anything about needing to "play" the card to get it to my hand from the discard pile, can I just discard it to kharmic, and then banish another card to get it back at the end of my turn, essentially turning all my cards into 'psuedo' kharmic?
A: Yes, that's correct.
(Replying to a player: "@Brook Cunningham I believe this question and the next one were omitted and I am also interested to see the answer. Thanks a lot in advance") Kakita Marcus answered that one at 222am above...
(Replying to a player: "This is the other one") ...and I answered that one at 534am above. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 28 Oct 2025