Insulting Gesture
Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Favor, Political
- Card Text
- Political Open: Choose your performing unbowed Courtier. Take the Imperial Favor.
Favor Political Battle: Discard the Imperial Favor to target an enemy Personality. Dishonor him. Bow him. Move him home. His controller loses 2 Honor. - Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Second City
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "This dust distracted me. Were your words important?"
- Artist
- Chris Pritchard
- Card Number
- 123
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Following this topic.
It is still unclear if all abilities on cards printed before Coils of Madness which have "discard the Imperial Favor" as a cost (now probably an effect) should be re-drafted with the "Favor" keyword. I searched in the Comprehensive Rules (p51-52), but this information is not explicitly stated.
Cards like "Insulting Gesture" or "Arrival of the Emerald Champion" are still not updated in OotV, but the database update could take a long time so it is neither a confirmation nor an invalidation.
However, this question is very important for Illumination deck in Legacy and Big deck formats and nothing can be deckbuilded without this information. Thank you for your clarification.
A: No, they should not.
At some point these may be updated to become Favor actions in Oracle, but until that time, nothing has been released saying that they should be treated as such. Jon Palmer, "Unworded "Favor" Keyworded Actions?", 22 Apr 2014