False Trail
Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Web of Lies, Twenty Festivals
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- As a Focus Effect, if the last Battle Strategy you played this game is in your discard pile, put it into your hand.
Battle,
: Move a target enemy Personality at any battlefield to another unresolved battlefield. - Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Rain of Blood (Diamond), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Samurai Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Glen Osterberger
- Card Number
- 238
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Web of Lies
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Ik'krt knew if he did not escape, the tribes would suffer.
- Artist
- Britt Martin
- Card Number
- 87
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "These prints were placed here on purpose." The Tsuruchi frowned. "How long have I been chasing foxes?"
- Artist
- Glen Osterberger
- Card Number
- 289
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Reads, "False Trail 2G 2FV Focus Effect: If the last Battle Action card you played this game is in your discard pile, put it into your hand. Battle: Target a Personality you do not control in an army, and a battlefield he is not at. Move the Personality to the battlefield." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 135
Rules Q&A
- Q: If I use a focus effect on an action card such as False Trail, does it count as playing a action card?
A: http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_P-Q#Play: "(T)o utilize an Action card by putting it into the resolution area." No. Zen Faulkes, "Focus Effects and Ring Of Water/Void", 8 Dec 2007 - Q: The Rule of Location: This rule has two parts:
1. Any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action.
2. If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield.
EXCEPTION: A Battle Action can target or be taken by a card in a unit at another location if its costs or effects say they can move the unit to the current battlefield. Choices within the action must then be taken, if possible, such that they do move the unit there.
A: Emphasis added. As long as you are moving it to the current battlefield, the exception will allow you to target a personality not at the current battlefield. Chris Fuchs, "False Trail clarification", 22 Sep 2007 - Q: Can Tangen Sensei redirect False Trail to one personalitie controled by the player that played False Trail? The same goes to Block Suply Lines.
A: Diamond rules, pg 74: Could they have been picked in the first place? Block Supply Lines: No. False Trail: No. Zen Faulkes, "Redirection - Tangen Sensei", 31 Mar 2005