Flash of Steel
Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance, Samurai Edition Banzai
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- As a Focus Effect, if your Personality was challenged to this duel, gain 4 Honor.
Battle: Target your performing opposed Personality. Bow him. Move him home. Gain Honor equal to the number of units in the current enemy army, to a maximum of 5. Increase the current battlefield's Province's strength by the amount of Honor you gained. - Focus Value
- 2
- Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Khan's Defiance
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Matt Dixon
- Card Number
- 97
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Samurai Edition Banzai
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Matt Dixon
- Card Number
- 66
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Would he still be able to gain the honor?
A: http://rules.l5r.com/FAQ#Is_an_action_l ... _happen.3F
Admittedly, the question doesn't ask if the action can be played, so it's a slight variation on the FAQ. But the basic idea is the same: Are effects contingent on other effects?
And it never hurts to... Zen Faulkes, "Flash of Steel and Winter Warfare", 3 Feb 2008 - Q: I Ambush one of my opponent's personalities with a non human and he runs away with Flash of Steel. My next action is to play Surprise Attack. Is the Surprise Attack still considered the Ambush attack phase for purposes of other units moving in?
A: There is no "Ambush attack phase" (http://rules.l5r.com/Battles: Battles... sometimes happen as separate card effects"), so I'm unclear of what the question is.
Note, though, that Ambush says, "No other units may move there," meaning the specific battlefield it created. Zen Faulkes, "Ambush and Surprise Attack", 30 Sep 2007