Immobile Stance
Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Drums of War
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Battle: Choose your performing Personality: Until the battle ends, he has +5F while opposed. While he is at the current battlefield and the enemy side has more units than yours, negate his destruction from cards' effects. Before you win a battle, if he is in your current arm, the battle's result is a tie instead.
- Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Samurai Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Be one with the earth you fight on.
- Artist
- Dave Kendall
- Card Number
- 252
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Drums of War
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Michael Kaluta
- Card Number
- 99
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Reads, "Immobile Stance 0G 4FV Battle: Target one of your Personalities: Until the battle ends, he has +5F while opposed. While he is at the current battlefield and the enemy side has more units than yours, cards’ effects cannot destroy him. If you would win a battle as Attacker or Defender while he is there, it is a tie instead." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 140
Rules Q&A
- Q: Fighting in the Streets: If I somehow magically tie my opponent naturally, or play Immobile Stance in the same battle as I played this card, do we both blow a holding and lose 2 honor, blow a holding with no honor loss, or absolutely nothing?
A: http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Resolution_Segment: There is no losing side in a tie. Nothing. Zen Faulkes, "Fighting in the Streets+Force Tie", 27 Nov 2007 - Q: Immobile Stance: Does it Cause a Tie in a battle if no units are opposing?
A: If the winning army;s total is not zero, yes. http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Resolution_Segment: "Whichever army has the most Force wins (see Force total). A side with no units has zero force for purposes of this comparison, and does not count as an army for effects that alter the force of an 'army'." Zen Faulkes, "Immobile Stance+No Opposition", 15 Nov 2007 - Q: (W)ould a personality targeted by Immobile Stance be immune to chi death as long as the opponent had more units in his army and the chi penalty came from a card effect?
A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Immobile Stance and Chi Death", 10 Oct 2007