Claw and Shell
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Plague War
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Open: Destroy one or two Personalities or attachments with base Gold Cost of 0.
Battle: Target an enemy Personality: Bow him if he is attacking. Destroy him if his base Gold Cost is 6 or less. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Plague War
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- With the Unicorn provoking the undead hordes into advancing on the Crab line, the shock troops of the Crab moved forward, and trapped the monsters between the defensive line and a flanking attack force.
- Artist
- Asier Martinez Lopez
- Card Number
- 114
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I looked at viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99986 but couldn't really apply it to my specific case.
My opponent has Ryoshun's Guidance, Shiba and TWO 0-cost followers in play. I play Claw and Shell, first and foremost to kill Shiba (and if possible one of the followers).
Is he able to use Ryoshun's to save Shiba or not?
What I'm thinking -> since C&S targeting isn't mandatory, it will happen in the action's resolution (does this have relevance to the case?). So I pick Shiba as the first target. My opponent reacts with Guidance, changing the target to one of the followers. I then pick Shiba as the second target.
Also, and as a sanity check, if my opponent only had Guidance, Shiba and a single 0-cost follower in play he could never save Shiba, right? I choose to target both, so the Guidance's redirection from Shiba has no remaining legal targets...
A: Your targeting is simultaneous, not sequential. At the targeting step, you would choose Shiba and one follower. Your opponent could then redirect from Shiba to the other follower. While there's a separate reaction window to each target, they're still chosen at the same time.
If it's just Shiba and one follower, Ryoshun's will not save them. Jon Palmer, "Claw and Shell vs. Ryoshun's Guidance", 31 Jul 2013 - Q: [Legacy] If I play Aftershock as response to an action with more than one effect like Claw and Shell, what effect is applied to my opponent choice?
A: Reactions don't work like Interrupts/Responses. You're not Reacting to the action, you're reacting to the specific trigger, in this case, your Personality being destroyed, bowed, or moved. Therefore, it would be whichever effect it was. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 19 Apr 2025