Fueling the Flames

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Ivory Edition, Promotional–Ivory

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Fire

Card Text

Fire Battle, w: Ranged 2 Attack. (Destroy a target enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers, with 2 or lower Force.)
Fire Battle: Bow this Shugenja to make a Ranged 6 Attack. Destroy this Shugenja.

Focus Value

1

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Fueling the Flames 0G 1FV Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 2 Attack.Battle: Bow and destroy this Shugenja: Ranged 6 Attack." [Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 133

Rules Q&A

• Q: As a follow-up to the reversal in the Thoughtless Sacrifice and Ward of Air interaction (here), does the same thing happen with Fueling the Flames?
  To be clear, if i use Fueling the flames Battle to produce a Ranged 6 and react with Ward of Air to negate my shugenja's destruction, the Ranged happen?
  Relevant text
  Fueling the Flames Fire Battle: Bow this Shugenja to make a Ranged 6 Attack. Destroy this Shugenja
  Ward of Air Before this Shugenja, or any Personality if this Shugenja is Air, is destroyed by a Battle action, you may destroy this Spell to negate it.
  A: Correct. Negation does not undo instant effects, like Ranged Attack destruction, that has already happened. Brook Cunningham, "Ward of Air and Fueling the Flames", 2 Sep 2014
• Q: In this thread, it was stated that...
  However, here, it said...
  These answers, seem to be contradictory. If they are not, what is the distinction between the two examples?
  A: The difference is that there is an additional condition in Tsuruchi Rin's ability.
  Tsuruchi Rin: Battle, (bow): Ranged 2 Attack. If this destroys a card, produce 1 Gold (which can be used later this phase).
  Fueling the Flames: Fire Battle: Bow this Shugenja to make a Ranged 6 Attack. Destroy this Shugenja.
  And, Combining, p45 of the Comprehensive Rules: As an Interrupt to that action, the player may use an ability from another card in the same unit that is appropriate to the phase and that creates another attack effect of the same kind. The player pays that ability’s costs, then resolves its action’s effects, with one change: instead of creating a separate attack effect, each of those actions’ relevant attack effects adds its own strength (with any modifications) to the strength of the original attack effect.
  So, when combined, Fueling the Flames essentially* becomes: Fire Interrupt: Bow this Shugenja to increase the strength of a Ranged Attack from a Battle action by 6. Destroy this Shugenja.
  ... and Tsuruchi Rin's ability becomes: Interrupt, (bow): Increase the strength of a Ranged Attack from a Battle action by 2. If the Ranged Attack from this Interrupt destroys a card, produce 1 Gold (which can be used later this phase).
  The problem is that when used as an Interrupt, Tsuruchi Rin's action doesn't itself create a Ranged Attack, it merely modifies the strength of another Ranged Attack, so the conditional effect is doesn't trigger.
  Alex
  (*) This isn't quite true: you can't declare either of these actions unless the original action is also a Ranged Attack Battle action, but I've omitted this for clarity. Alex Jones, "Followup to Tsuruchi Rin, Fueling the Flames, and Combining", 29 Apr 2014