Dirty Scum!

Legend of the Five Rings card from An Oni's Fury

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Political Battle: Target your performing unbowed Personality to have him challenge a target enemy Personality; he may refuse if his controller has not brought any Shadowlands cards into play this game. The winner may choose to have this duel end this battle immediately, without resolution; if he does not, or if there is no winner, destroy the loser.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Jeff, Zen, Vaughn, et al.,
  I was wondering if, since the card does not specify, the attacker goes home bowed should the defender win this duel and choose not to kill his opponent. I didn't find much in the accumulated rulings and the rulebook to suggest an answer one way or the other except this excerpt from the rulebook:
  *[The battle has now resolved. All surviving attacking and allied units (including defending allies) return to their controllers' homes, bowed. The Defender's units do not bow; they remain in their Provinces until the Attack Phase ends.
  If this is the very last battle of the Attack Phase, any attacking and allied units that moved into other Provinces and are still there go home bowed now as well.]*
  I assume (and we all know what that means) the default way to go home is bowed, judging from this entry, regardless of whether the battle has resolved or not. Sorry if it has already been ruled on or if I missed something obvious.
  A: If a battle ends early, without resolution, the default result is for all units to units return home in the same way as they do after a resolved battle: attacking and allied units bow, the Defender's own do not. Jeff Alexander, "post for 19 March 2002", 20 Mar 2002