Hidden Route

Legend of the Five Rings card from Path of the Destroyer

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Recon

Card Text

Recon Limited: Target your performing unbowed Scout to target a Province. You have Reconnaissance at its battlefields. You may negate the first effect that moves home one or more of your Personalities from an action during a battle at that Province's battlefield. Before this turn ends, you may put this card in your hand from the discard pile if you did not destroy the targeted Province.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Meaning, is the term "You have Reconnaissance there." mechanically equivalent to "Target a Province." (which is how older recon-enabling cards like Hidden Route are written)?
  A: No. The spiffy new glossary entry specifically says, "does not imply targeting, although it may come from an action that explicitly targeted a province" (my emphasis).
  EDIT: Answer directly above reversed, see below. Zen Faulkes, "Reconnaissance", 24 Sep 2011
• Q: I target Province x with Hidden Route. We enter my battle phase, and I assign attackers to Province x. My opponent takes his first action, which does not move home any of my personalities. I take my first action, and play Encircled Terrain. My opponent plays his second action, and let's say it's Imperial Decree (the specific card doesn't matter) to move one of my personalities home. Does Hidden Route prevent Imperial Decree?
  A: Yes, because Hidden Route is looking for actual movement, not resolution. Zen Faulkes, "Hidden Route + Encircled Terrain 2", 14 Dec 2009