Dark Ring of Air

Legend of the Five Rings card from 1,000 Years of Darkness

Card Type

Ring

Keywords

Unique, Air, Shadowlands

Card Text

This card does not count toward an Enlightenment Victory.
After one of your actions destroys another player's Shugenja or Monk, you may put this card into play from your hand.
After this card enters play, lose 5 Honor.
After a Ring of Air enters play, destroy this card.
Air Reaction: After another player's Spell or Kiho action targets you or your cards, negate its effects.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: House of Tao After Strongholds, Sensei, and Winds are revealed, search your an Elemental Ring and put it into play. If you put a Shadowlands card into play, remove all of your Elemental Rings from the game.
  Dark Ring of Air Shadowlands Lose 5 Honor.This card does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory. Destroy this card if a Ring of Air enters play.Play this card after you destroy another player's Shugenja or Monk with an action.Elemental Benefit: Once per turn, cancel a Spell or Kiho targeting you or your cards.
  My question is: when does the second sentence begin to trigger? Does it happen as soon as you are playing the first Ring off the Stronghold, even though no one has begun their turns yet and play has not started?
  More directly: If I play the Dark Ring of Air with the House of Tao's effect, will it cause itself to be discarded?
  [Mod edit: Thread title. -ZF]
  A: The House of Tao's second trait is active as soon as the stronghold is revealed: if you put a Dark Ring into play with the first trait it is immediately removed by the second.
  The rulings here may be of use: http://www.legendofthefiverings.com/rul ... hold_boxes Alex Jones, "The House of Tao and Dark Rings", 21 Apr 2008