Heroic Sacrifice

Legend of the Five Rings card from 1,000 Years of Darkness

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Heroic

Card Text

Heroic Battle: Your target performing unbowed Personality with Double Chi or with more than one Weapon attached challenges two target enemy Personalities. Resolve the duels consecutively. Before the first duel begins, permanently remove your Personality's Double Chi, or destroy one of his Weapons if he does not have Double Chi. Destroy the losers.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Just wondering what would happen with someone who has Tsudao's Tanto attached, granting them the Double Chi trait and then them making a Heroic Sacrifice.
  "Battle: One of your Personalities with Double Chi or with more than one Weapon issues two consecutive unrefusable challenges to opposing personalities. Before the first challenge, permanently remove your duelist's Double Chi trait, or destroy one of his or her Weapons if your duelist is not Double Chi."
  Can they lose the Double Chi trait or does it simply remain there because the Tanto is constantly granting it to them?
  A: They lose it. Last effect wins. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 1 March 2004", 2 Mar 2004
• Q: The last part under Ranged Attacks is about multiple RA's from 1 action. How does that ruling relate to multiple duels from 1) Come One at a Time and 2) Heroic Sacrifice.
  A: You have to look for whether the card key for an action or a duel. Something that negated a duel would affect just one; cancelling an action would affect both (though if it was played for the second duel, it wouldn't undo the results of the first). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 12 October 2003", 12 Oct 2003
• Q: Can you play Heroic sacrifice if there is only one opposing unit?
  A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 22 September 2003, Part 2", 23 Sep 2003
• Q: I have a Personality with two Tonfas attached, and play Heroic Sacrifice, causing my Personality to lose the Double Chi trait (rather than destroying one of my tonfas). In which of the following circumstances do I regain Double Chi?
  1) At the start of the next turn (presumably not). 2) When I move one of the tonfas to another personality, and back again (giving the Double Chi trait again). 3) When I play a Double Chi kiho on the Personality. 4) I can never regain the trait. 5) If my Personality had Double Chi already (before attaching tonfas): in this case, I don't lose the trait in the first place.
  A: 2 and 3. Jeff Alexander, "post for 3 December 2002", 4 Dec 2002
• Q: 1) Heroic Sacrifice - Battle: One of your Personalities with Double Chi or with more than one Weapon issues two consecutive unrefusable challenges to opposing Personalities. Before the first challenge, permanently remove your duelists's Double Chi trait, or destroy one of his or her Weapons if your duelist is not Double Chi. What if the Double Chi trait comes from an item, like Atarasi's Armor?
  A: You remove the Double Chi trait. He stays without the trait until some other effect gives it to him, such as using Atarasi's Armor's action next turn. Jeff Alexander, "post for 22 October 2002", 23 Oct 2002
• Q: A few questions about 1000 years of darkness:
  1) Heroic Sacrifice and Mirumoto Tokeru: If Tokeru has two weapons attached, and plays Heroic Sacrifice to remove the double chi trait, would he immediately gain it back, since he didn't lose the "Gains Double Chi while he has two weapons attached", he merely lost the Double Chi trait, and so it would reassert itself?
  A: The most recent effect removed his trait, so he would not have it. Jeff Alexander, "post for 4 Oct 2002", 7 Oct 2002