Heart of Fudo

Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Celestial

Card Type

Item

Force

+1

Chi

+0

Gold Cost

3

Keywords

Unique, Fudo

Card Text

Limited: Remove from the game three of your Fudo Holdings with different titles: Create a 10F/5C/0PH Nonhuman • Fudo Personality with the trait "Cards' effects will not bow this Personality or move him home."
Reaction: Before one of your Nonhumans with 8 or higher Force is destroyed, destroy this card: Negate the Nonhuman's destruction.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: As the matter below is about choosing instead of targeting:
  Incredible Resilience Reaction: After the resolution of an enemy player's Battle action that targeted one of your Personalities: The player chooses and bows one of his unbowed Personalities at the current battlefield.
  Heart of Fudo Limited: Remove from the game three of your Fudo Holdings with different titles: Create a 10F/5C/0PH Nonhuman • Fudo Personality with the trait "Cards' effects will not bow this Personality or move him home."
  Assuming there is already a Nonhuman Personality created by Heart of Fudo's ability on the battlefield, the sequence is as follows:
  1. Player A plays Incredible Resilience as a reaction to an earlier Player B's action 2. In order to satisfy Incredible Resilience's effects, Player B chooses the Heart of Fudo's Personality.
  The questions:
  A. Will that Personality bow in that instance? B. If not, can player A choose this Personality to satisfy the Incredible Resilience's effect (is it a legal choice)? C. What about A. and B. in case of "target" in place of "choose"?
  Many thanks.
  A: "Will not" indicates that a given effect won't happen. Unlike "May not", it places no restrictions on targeting or choosing for an effect. Both "Will not" and "May not" will prevent something being chosen to pay a cost.
  So...
  A. Will that Personality bow in that instance? No.
  B. If not, can player A choose this Personality to satisfy the Incredible Resilience's effect (is it a legal choice)? Yes
  C. What about A. and B. in case of "target" in place of "choose"? No difference. Alex Jones, "Incredible Resilience vs. Heart of Fudo's Personality", 4 Aug 2010