Fortified Ground
Legend of the Five Rings card from Soul of the Empire
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Terrain
- Card Text
- Before this battle's resolution: You may target and move home a number of attacking units up to the number of Fortifications attached to this battlefield's province.
Battle: Even if you control no units at the current battlefield, if there are no Terrains in play there: Put this card into play there. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Soul of the Empire
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- They fought back to back against the horde but saw no sign of victory. The ronin snarled, "Before I die, I need one question answered…." - from The Ronin and the Crane, Part I
- Artist
- Thomas Manning
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: Nope. ToC doesn't target targeted actions. It just says that if an action is sending you home it get's canceled.
I don't think it will work, because I don't think terrain resolution effects count as an action.
Sure they do. Terrains are Action cards, and they resolve. Delayed Terrains don't resolve right when they're played, but that's the only wrinkle.
Well, in that case, let me state the specific case I was referring to, just to make sure I understand correctly. If I attack, and the defender plays Fortified Ground with two fortifications, and then I play Storms of War. Terrain resolution occurs. What happens? a) The defender can send home two units without bowing anyone. b) The defender must bow a unit for each unit sent home.
A: Bad example. Storms of War's bowing kicks in when the action is "peformed", not when it resolves. The Defender would not have to bow anyone since he played Fortified Ground before Storms went into effect.
Hypothetically, though, IF Storms of War applied when actions resolved instead of when they're performed, the answer would be
c) The defender must bow one Personality or Follower to begin taking advantage of Fortified Ground's options, and could then send home any number of attackers without any further extra bowing.. Jeff Alexander, "post for 7 February 2002", 8 Feb 2002 - Q: This message was originally submitted by darkangel@GCI.NET to the L5RINFO list at ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM. <L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
If my opponent attacks province 4 which has no fortifications attached, and I have 3 fortifications on province 1, can I play Fortified Ground in province 4 and send 3 units home? Does Kaiu Sensei consider the 3 forts in my other province in play at every province?
A: It lets you use actions, and benefit from traits, which are on the Fortifications as though they were there, but that's it. They don't count as being on the current Province for anything else. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 26 March 2001", 30 Mar 2001