Decoy

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Fire & Shadow

Card Type

Follower

Force

0

Chi

+1

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

4

Personal Honor

-

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

Reaction, w: Before this Personality is destroyed, destroy this Follower to negate the destruction.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: And to make things a little clearer, what happens to the rest of the unit (items, followers...), are they still destroyed ? Decoy says "cancel the destruction", so I assume we speak about the destruction of the personality, but we could also understand "cancel the whole destuction effect".
  A: You can't Cancel effects, only Negate them.
  Decoy only Negates the effect of destroying the Personality.
  An effect that destroys a unit destroys a personality and all attached cards. If the Personality's destruction is negated this in no way inhibits the effect of destroying all attached cards. Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 June 2004", 2 Jul 2004
• Q: 3 - Can Decoy be used if its entire unit is about to be destroyed (Strength in Numbers, To Do What We must, battle resolution) to prevent the personality's destruction ?
  A: Yes. Decoy says, "Reaction: Before this Personality is destroyed, bow and destroy Decoy to negate the destruction." While it is still "before" the destruction of the unit takes place, Decoy is still around to use its Reaction. Martin Lund, "Rules for 26 June 2004", 29 Jun 2004
• Q: I have a Personality with a Decoy attached. The Defender play an Overwhelmed. I choose to destroy the Personality, but react with the Decoy. What happens after it?
  A: This: Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 4 December 2003", 5 Dec 2003
• Q: According to the playgroup there, there has been some ruling on overwhelmed that prevent me from using Decoy. Is this true?
  A: You can't use Decoy to circumvent paying a cost (like for *you* to play Overwhelmed), because Decoy saves cards *before* they are destroyed. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 27 October 2003", 28 Oct 2003
• Q: If it is, I suppose that negating it with Decoy would cancel the whole spell ?
  A: Yes (Rules Archive, General Rules, Costs). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 22 September 2003, Part 2", 23 Sep 2003
• Q: How about Decoy?
  A: Yes. It works the same way. Jeff Alexander, "post for 6 August 2002", 6 Aug 2002
• Q: Can this be used for ablities that require the person to be destroyed?
  Im sorry but I have a hard time remebering card names. She's a Daidoji with a built in psudo-to do what we must.
  Reaction: Before this Personality is destroyed, bow and destroy Decoy to negate the destruction.
  Battle: Destroy Setsuko:
  A: Sure. You can destroy Decoy and Negate her destruction.
  But then you haven't paid the cost "Destroy Setsuko" because you Negated her destruction. You have to either try and destroy her again, or let her Action get canceled due to non-Payment, as per the Diamond Edition Rulebook. Martin Lund, "Decoy", 5 Mar 2005