Control the Field

Legend of the Five Rings card from Emperor Edition, Samurai Edition, Winds of Change, Code of Bushido, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target your performing Personality with Scout, Tactician, or 3 or higher Chi, to destroy a target Terrain. You may take an additional Battle action to play a Terrain.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Four Winds (Gold), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Control the Field 0G 3FV Battle: Target one of your Personalities at the current battlefield with Tactician, Scout, or 3 or more Chi: Destroy a target Terrain. You may take an additional Battle action to play a Terrain from your hand." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 129

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hello folks,
  I'm just passing along some information. Jeff proposed the following, and Rules Team gave it the stamp of approval, so here's a new ruling that will reverse a couple of previous ones, I'm sure:
  "Playing" a card is considered "taking an action" in all ways if (and only if) that card is an Action card.
  Does that mean cancelled actions still count?
  A: No. Martin Lund, "Rules for 2 July 2004", 2 Jul 2004
• Q: a) My opponent plays Control the Field, destroys my terrain and plays his terrain;
  A: +1F. It is one action. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 1 March 2004", 2 Mar 2004
• Q: Another random question for you, if I play Control the Field to destroy a terrain & play a new terrain does the new terrain count as a separate battle action for Ring of Water or is playing the new terrain considered to be part of Control the Field?
  A: It's a part of Control the Field. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 17 Feb. 2004", 19 Feb 2004
• Q: I searched for Muhito but found surprizingly little. I just wish to clarify a few things with this personality His ability: Reaction: After an action resolves that moved Muhito to or from a battlefield: Take an additional action.
  Encircled Terrain Terrain Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, the Attacker and Defender, in the order of your choice, each choose one of his units at the current battlefield. Then, move all other units there home.
  1)If Encircled Terrain is in the current battle and he is one of the people I send home, do I get another action (after delayed terrans resolve?
  2)If yes then it's safe to assume that if I do then if I have multiple ones in that army I get multiple action?
  3)I only have to move him out once correct? So if I move him back into the battle with my action I don't have to send him back home
  4) Now the tricky one, lets assume with my extra action I play Control the Field, which lets me destroy a terrain and play a new one, if I do what craziness happens?
  Control the Field: Battle: Target one of your Personalities at the current battlefield with Tactician, Scout, or 3 or more Chi: Destroy a target Terrain. You may take an additional Battle action to play a Terrain from your hand.
  A: Short answer: That won't work.
  Long answer: Bayushi Muhito cannot legally respond to to Encircled Terrain, because Muhito's ability is triggered "After an action resolves that moved Muhito to or from a battlefield." An action resolves after all of its immediate effects are done (http://rules.l5r.com/Abilities_and_acti ... n_resolves), but Encircled Terrain only moves units as a delayed effect. Muhito cannot respond to delayed effects.
  Bonus "Want me to make it worse?" long answer: It is legal for Bayushi Muhito to react to an action that moves units "before a battle resolves" or "before battle resolution," but you can't legally use the effect, because "Effects 'before a battle resolves' happen after the Combat Segment ends and before the Resolution Segment begins" (http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Resolution_Segment). Battle actions are only legal during the Combat Segment, and you're not in that segment any more. Zen Faulkes, "Bayushi Muhito and Encircled Terrain", 4 Sep 2007