Goemon's Ascension

Legend of the Five Rings card from Wrath of the Emperor

Card Type

Event

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

After you reveal cards in your Provinces at the start of your turn, if this Event is face-up in one of them, it enters play in your home.
Reaction: After your Experienced Personality is targeted by an action, discard this Event from play to make the action target another legal card of your choice instead.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2003 European Champion - Tolis Koutsikos

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Unexpected Strike: End all ongoing effects of one Event that has already resolved.
  Goemon's Ascension: This card remains in play in your home. [...]
  A: [MARTY] Unexpected Strike has no effect whatsoever on Goemon's Ascension. Goemon's Ascension produces no on-going effects from its resolution.
  - Marty Lund Deputy Rules Monkey Martin Lund, "Rules for 14 September 2004", 17 Sep 2004
• Q: Do the new events like Goemon's Ascension that remain in play until used count as an 'ongoing effect' of an event that has been resolved for the purposes of Unexpected Strike?
  A: Being put into play isn't an on-going effect. It is a one-shot sort of thing. Events that remain in play merely avert the "immediately discarded" rule that normally sweeps events into your Discard Pile. Once you're past that specific instance, the Event remains in play until an effect says to remove it from play in some manner. Unexpected Strike will not discard Goemon's Ascension.
  Of course, if they have any sort of on-going effect (not to be confused with effects of a Trait that is continuously applied while the event is in play) produced when they resolved initially, those will be ended. Martin Lund, "Rules for 30 August 2004", 3 Sep 2004