Fight For My Favor

Legend of the Five Rings card from Chaos Reigns Part III

Card Type: Strategy
Gold Cost: 0
Keywords: Imperial, Experienced
Card Text: As a Focus Effect, the winner takes .
Political Battle : Your target unbowed Personality challenges a target enemy Personality. The winner takes . Bow the loser, or destroy them and lose 3 Honor.
Focus Value: 3
Legality: Shattered Empire
Deck: Fate

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Q: Perfect thank you Last question whole new topic.... ShE fight for my favor i play it. When do i choose to destroy vs bow? When the card is played? After focusing and determined winner? Been playing it as when played.
A: After determining the winner/loser. You choose the optional consequences as they'e applied, which is not until the loser is determined. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 8 Jan 2026
Q: [Imperial]
If I use Fight For My Favor against a lobbying personality and I win the duel and I use Utter Defeat so it doesn't die, can I still react with Political Mistake, targeting the personality?
A: This is a difficult question to answer from an Imperial-Rules perspective, and also highlights that my Oracle wording of "Fight For My Favor" may be incomplete, due to its original wording being somewhat loosey goosey and me not filling in all the gaps. 😛 Also, the Oracle text of none of the cards was written from a "Classic Lobbying" perspective, so it is hard to judge what may be considered a "success" or not from Politcal Mistake's perspective in an Imperial environment, and also because "success" itself is/was ill-defined in any contemporary Rulebook, only implicitly (but not explicitly) tied to outmoded concepts like "canceling" being somehow distinct and different than negation. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 16 Apr 2025