Hidden Reserves

Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Samurai, Twenty Festivals

Card Type

Follower

Force

2

Chi

0

Gold Cost

3

Keywords

Scout

Card Text

Battle, :g*:: If this Follower is in your hand, target your Personality at any location. If he would be opposed, move him to the current battlefield and Equip this Follower to him.

Focus Value

1

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Race for the Throne (Samurai), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: if my hida zaiberu is at home, can i announce Hidden Reserves and pay 3 gold, move Hida zaiberu in the battle, and then fail to attach Hidden Reserves, which then goes into the discard pile?
  Hida Zaiberu Cannot attach Followers.
  Hidden Reserves 3G Battle, * : If this Follower is in your hand, target your Personality at any location. If he would be opposed, move him to the current battlefield and Equip this Follower to him.
  A: If you do this the attachment will fail, and Zaiberu will move the current battlefield. Jon Palmer, "Hida Zaiberu and Hidden Reserves", 4 May 2015
• Q: Suppose I'm playing out of the Eastern Hub Port stronghold.
  I have a personality outside of a battle and I attach Hidden Reserves to him. Does he get to move to the current battlefield before I get my additional action or do I have to take my additional action before the movement occurs?
  A: Eastern Hub Port's trait triggers after the action that attached something resolves. Hidden Reserves' action doesn't finish resolving until after all its effects have activated, including the movement.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_R#Resolve: "An action or trait... stops resolving when its sequence of effect activation has ended".
  So, you receive your opportunity to take an additional action after the movement. Brook Cunningham, "Hidden Reserves + Eastern Hub Port", 24 Jul 2008