Cowardly Rabble

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test

Card Type

Follower

Force

3

Chi

0

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

2

Personal Honor

-

Card Text

After the second or later time each battle the enemy leader resolves a Battle action, if this Follower is at the current battlefield, put it in your hand.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: 1. An action or trait begins to resolve when its sequence of effects begins, assuming costs, targeting adn conditions have been met. It stops resolving when its sequence of effects has ended, even if the application of some effects has been delayed by other effects.
  A: An action has resolved after all of its effects have ended. Fortified Camp reacts when your attachment is destroyed by another player's action. Fortified Camp will reattach it before the second action has fully resolved. Once that second action finishes resolving, the Rabble will go to your hand due to their trait. Chris Fuchs, "Cowardly Rabble", 22 Sep 2007
• Q: I control a Personality with Cowardly Rabble attached and during a battle my opponent takes one battle action and then the second one that end up destroying my follower. If I use Fortified Camp to bring him back into play what will happen?
  A: This is a really vague question.
  At first, I thought this question was, "Do cards 'remember' things when they've been out of play?" Yes, unless they were also face-down. See http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Tracking_rule
  Then, I thought the question was "When does the clock start counting Battle actions?" The count starswhen the Combat Segment starts, because it's "the second or later time each battle," not "the second or later time each battle after this Follower enters play."
  Then, I thought the question was, "Does the trait trigger all the time, or only when Battle actions resolve?" The latter. Zen Faulkes, "Cowardly Rabble", 22 Sep 2007