Essence of Destruction
Legend of the Five Rings card from Death at Koten
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Spell
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Keywords
- Unique, Black Scroll
- Card Text
- If this Personality ever has a number of Corruption tokens equal to or greater than his base Chi: Destroy him.
Battle: Any number of times per turn, give this Personality a -1C Corruption token and target a unit: Bow it. Lose 2 Honor. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Death at Koten
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "You shall plague the Empire no longer!"
- Artist
- IFS
- Card Number
- 83
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I am pretty sure I know this answer, but I want to hear it from one of you before I tell anyone else. If I have a shugenja with any of the -1c tokesn from Essence of Destruction and I attach a Resilient Naginata, it negates the chi penalties, but does that also remove the tokens?
A: The tokens stay.
Tokens are not removed unless a card effect removes them or the card the tokens are on leaves play. Dan Jacobson, "Resilient Naginata and Essence of Destruction", 11 Apr 2010 - Q: This card is a "I bow your unit. You take your action. I bow another of your unit" card, right?
A: Yes.
The text "Any number of times per turn" grants that ability an exemption from the rule that abilities can only be used once per turn. It doesn't do anything more than that. And it is located where it belongs, in the constraints block (see here for more info on that). Brook Cunningham, "Essence of Destruction", 4 Aug 2009