Far and Wide

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Fall of Otosan Uchi

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Limited: Target a face-up Region in one of your provinces: If it is different from all other Regions already attached to the province, attach it to the province ignoring limits upon how many Regions the province may attach, but still paying all costs.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Q: Are you going to change what Far and Wide does? The new Region rules make it useless. A: We are not issuing any errata to Far and Wide. Legend of the Five Rings FAQ, October 2003, p. 10

Rules Q&A

• Q: My question is: does Far and Wide break the Singular rule? My thought is that it does not because it was written before Singular ever existed, and therefore Singular could not have been taken into consideration with the intent of the card. However, by Far and Wide's text, as long as the region in the province isn't the same as one already attached, I may bring that card into play. Card text follows.
  Far and Wide. Limited: Bring a face-up Region in one of your Provinces into play and attach it to that Province if that Region is different from all other Regions already attached to the Province. You must pay any costs of bringing the Region into play.
  A: It does not overrule the Singular rules. It was written at a time where Regions were not Singular.
  Further, it is actually possible to have Regions attached to your Provinces that you do not Control (Savagery of the Moto) and thusly would not prohibit you by the Singular Rule from bringing out your own copy of said Region. Martin Lund, "Rules for 11 December 2004", 13 Dec 2004
• Q: I have a question about the interaction between Far and Wide and the singular traits on regions.
  The following situation occured: a Khol Wall player flips his provinces in his event phase and attaches two regions, refills face down and after the end of his event phase he flips those cards face up. The cards that now sit face up on the just attached regions are also regions. Region 1 (sorrows path) has a Barbarian Wall on it, and Region 2 (Barbarian Wall) has a sorrows path on it. Can the Khol Wall player play a Far and Wide to attach one of these regions to the other?
  A: No. Martin Lund, "Rules for 5 December 2004", 9 Dec 2004
• Q: Does Far and Wide make use of the Cardinal Rule to work its way around the singular trait? If not, please explain why.
  A: It doesn't work around Singular rules because:
  A.) It doesn't explicitly say it overrides the Singular rules.
  B.) You can play the card for its effect in other circumstances without violating the Singular rule.
  You only get the "implicit" use of the Cardinal Rule if it is impossible to play the card for its effect without doing so. In the case of Far and Wide, you can still use the card to play a Region in a manner that would not violate Singular.
  Remember that Far and Wide wasn't written with Diamond Edition rules in mind - Singular never existed then, there was only Unique. Far and Wide was written with a prohibition against layering two copies of the same Region onto the same Province to prevent things like doubled Shadowlands Marsh back before they made all Regions Singular. Martin Lund, "Rules for 5 December 2004", 9 Dec 2004
• Q: Therefore, through the normal course of play, Far and Wide can never be played, because you must ALWAYS discard regions if you do not attach them during the Events Phase, and Far and Wide is a Limited action. Far and Wide can be played only if, during the Events Phase or the Action Phase, a card in a Province is discarded and then refilled and turned face up.
  A: Far and Wide was written to work under Pre-Diamond Rules. With the onset of Diamond Edition, the card became almost non-functional. It happens sometimes. Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 September 2004", 4 Oct 2004
• Q: Umm, Zen? Then what did it do?
  A: Whoops. Got twisted around as to what rules had changed in Diamond. Sorry.
  [taps on mic] "Hey everybody! Forget the dumb thing that Zen said!" Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 9 November 2003, Part 2", 10 Nov 2003
• Q: Can someone explain how to play this card ?
  A: Under Diamond Edition rules, you can't use it effectively. See the FAQ, here: http://l5r.com/ccg/faq.html#s4 Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 9 November 2003", 9 Nov 2003
• Q: This card allows you to put more than one region in a province.
  A: No, it does not. Nowhere does it say, "This will allow a Province to have two regions attached." See the FAQ, URL above. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 9 November 2003", 9 Nov 2003
• Q: I have a question on Far and Wide:
  This action card reads : Limited: Bring a face-up Region in one of your Provinces into play and attach it to that Province if that region is different from all other Regions already attached to the Province. You must pay any cost of bringing the Region into play.
  My confusion came in the rules which say that each Provinces can have one region. Does this card breaks that rule and allow multi-region to be attached to one province?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "post for 2 December 2002", 3 Dec 2002
• Q: With Far and Wide, can I target (a region in) a province with no regions attached at all?
  Far and Wide Limited: Target a face-up Region in one of your provinces: If it is different from all other Regions already attached to the province, attach it to the province ignoring limits upon how many Regions the province may attach, but still paying all costs.
  A: Unfortunately, no.
  By extension of the definition of Different keywords, a Region you're trying to target with Far and Wide can't be "different" from nothing. Sadly, Far and Wide is next to useless thanks to changes in how Regions enter play (in that they are immediately discarded if they turn face-up on another Region in the Events Phase). But, should you happen to flip over a Region outside the Events Phase, in a province that already has a different Region attached... well, there you go. Brook Cunningham, "Far and Wide with no regions", 14 Jun 2012