A Gentle Word
Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Limited: Target your performing Magistrate to rehonor a target dishonorable Personality and gain 2 Honor.
- Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Before the Dawn
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- In Rokugan, testimony of an honorable man is stronger than a mountain of evidence. A single sentence from a respected samurai can undo months of suspicion.
- Artist
- Chris Pritchard
- Card Number
- 102
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: This ruling: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=90494&p=1201878
Zen said he was going to kick it to the Rules Junta . . . any word?
I think the main part of the issue is the wording of the rules are these. At least 3 cards that are affected are A Gentle Word, Kitsune Den, and Unshakable Resolve - all of which rehonor first, then gain honor:
Physically Marked Card States Dishonorable status is checked when the Personality is targeted, etc.
References: Dishonorable status is checked only at the time the targeting, origin or performing of the action or trait is established.
A: Fixed it! Those cards now work as they should within the parameters of the Rules.
Honorable and Disohonorable status: "Before a player gains Honor from an action or trait that targeted, came from, or was performed by one or more of his or her dishonorable Personalities, if any of those Personalities is not otherwise rehonored by the action or trait, each Personality is rehonored and the player does not gain the Honor. (Dishonorable status is checked when the Personality is targeted, etc. For more details, see References). [CHANGED 2 Aug 2011]" Brook Cunningham, "Unshakable Resolve and Kitsune Den", 1 Aug 2011