Fires of the Phoenix
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Fall of Otosan Uchi
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Spell
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Keywords
- Fire
- Card Text
- Reaction: Any number of times per turn, before a target Personality is destroyed during a Combat Segment, bow this Shugenja: Negate the destruction. Destroy that Personality when the Attack Phase ends if he is still in play.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Fall of Otosan Uchi
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Even after all his work, Masaaki was unwilling to believe he might have purified the lost Black Scroll.
- Artist
- Jeremy Jarvis
- Card Number
- 147
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: If I target one of my Personalities with To Do What We Must and an opposing Personality, I then cast Fires of the Phoenix on my Personality. So I have temporarily stopped the destruction of my Personality but he is still going to be destroyed at the end of the Attack Phase so I am still paying for To Do What We Must.
A: No, you're not. You cannot set up a loan, where you pay for an action now by promising that you'll kill the personality later. Either you kill the personality as a cost of the action, or you get no effect from the action. Vaughn Derderian, "Post for June 23rd, 2003", 23 Jun 2003 - Q: What about if I played Overwhelmed in conjunction with Fires of the Phoenix?
A: That works, because the destruction of your personality to Overwhelmed is not a cost of the action. Vaughn Derderian, "Post for June 23rd, 2003", 23 Jun 2003