Pierce the Spirit
Legend of the Five Rings card from Gates of Tengoku
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Kharmic
- Card Text
- Before your turn ends, if you are a Mantis Clan player, you may banish a card from your hand to return this Strategy to your hand from your discard pile.
Interrupt: The action's
is compared against the target's printed Force. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Shattered Empire
- Deck
- Fate
- Story
- Spring Kotei 2015 – Daniel Landrum
Printings
Gates of Tengoku
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "They say there is a Tsuruchi stalking the Scorpion lands with arrows dipped in ashes from Traitor's Grove, who always aims for the heart."
- Artist
- (PD) Adachi Ginko, "Lady Archer"
- Card Number
- 82
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rules Q&A
- 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 - Q: [ShE] Pierce the Spirit compares the range attack against the printed force of the follower/personality, right? Now, if a 2F personality has an item attached, such as The Deathless, his printed force would still be 2 when using Pierce the Spirit, or the printed force would be 4 due to the item modifier?
A: Printed means exactly that; no bonuses, penalties, or modifiers factored in. So, just 2 in the example. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 10 Jul 2025