A Favor Returned

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Hidden City, Promotional–Lotus, Training Grounds 2, Wrath of the Emperor, Web of Lies, Enemy of My Enemy, Code of Bushido, Path of Hope

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

3

Card Text

After determining the starting player but before shuffling, if you are not the starting player, you may search your deck for this Holding and put it into play (bowed), ignoring costs. If you do, this Holding will not straighten before your third Straighten Phase. After this trait resolves, remove all your Bamboo Harvesters and Legacy Holdings from the game, and this trait on other copies of this Holding in your deck will not trigger.
w: Produce 2 Gold, or 3 Gold if paying for a Holding which may only pay for that card.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Erratum

Errata'd via the Oracle.

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I use Shrine to Daikoku's effect on A Favor Returned, will it produce 4 gold for holdings?
  A: Yes. Shrine to Daikoku increase the amount of gold the holding produces by 1 whenever the holding produces gold. Martin Lund, "Rules for 8 December 2004", 10 Dec 2004
• Q: If I use Shrine to Daikoku's effect on A Favor Returned, will it produce 4 gold for holdings?
  A: Yes. Martin Lund, "Rules for 6 December 2004", 10 Dec 2004
• Q: Can you have both A Favor Returned and Search for a Private Trader in Legacy? Both cards are not mutually exclusive... the only way I could see it not working is because of some kind of made rule saying you could not.
  [Mod edit: Thread title. -ZF]
  A: That's why we made one.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Legacy_Format_Changes_to_the_Current_Rulebook#p._24.2C_Legacy_Holdings:
  "p. 24, Legacy Holdings REPLACE "If you're not going first, you may now search" with "If you're not going first and have no holdings in play, you may now search"
  ADD: "If you have put a Legacy Holding in play this way, you may not bring holdings in play except through another player's card effects until your first turn begins.
  EDIT: And keep the questions to the Rules forum, please! Thread moved. Brook Cunningham, "A Favor Returned and Private Trader", 25 Jul 2008
• Q: Start of game When a game of L5R starts, follow steps A through G in sequence.
  A. All players show their Strongholds, and any other cards that begin the game in play, at the same time. Each player starts his or her Family Honor stat at his Stronghold’s Starting Honor, applying any modifications. This is not an Honor gain. B. The starting player is determined; the player with the highest Family Honor goes first. If one or more players are tied in Family Honor, they resolve who goes first randomly, such as by rolling dice or flipping a coin. C. In turn order, each player who is not going first may search his or her Dynasty deck for a Legacy holding, show it, and put it into play (bowed) without Gold cost. Legacy holdings put into play this way cannot straighten before their controller’s third turn begins.
  A Favor Returned -
  After determining starting player but before shuffling, if you are not the starting player, you may search your deck for this card and put it into play, bowed. If you do, this card may not straighten before your third Straighten Phase. Play only one copy this way per game. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold, or produce 3 Gold if paying for a Holding.
  Is there anything stopping someone searching for a Legacy holding and a copy of A Favor Returned before the start of the game in a format where both are legal?
  A: This sounds like a question for the Legacy Council.
  http://www.jadehand.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=33 Zen Faulkes, "Legacy holdings in older formats.", 22 Feb 2008