Anchor the Line

Legend of the Five Rings card from Web of Lies

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Flank, Formation

Card Text

Battle: If you control three Unicorn Clan or Tactician Personalities at the current battlefield, put this card into play there. Discard your other Formations there. You may take an additional Battle action.
Repeatable Reaction: After a unit you do not control moves to the current battlefield, if this card is in play and you are meeting the conditions to put it there, bow your card at the current battlefield, which performs this action if it is a Personality, Follower, or Ancestor, to destroy a target card without attachments in the unit.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Anchor the Line says: "Reaction: After a unit you do not control moves to the current battlefield, bow a card you control in the current battle: Target a card in the unit that moved that has no attached cards. Destroy it." The line that says 'Target a card that has no attached cards'...does this effectively mean that I can only target Personalities with no attached cards? Can I target followers and items with this action?
  A: Attachment is a one-way street. Items, Followers, Spells, and Ancestors are attached to Personalities. Personalities are not attached to them, nor are them attached to each other by virtue of being attached to the game Personality.
  In essence, a Follower or Item never has any attached cards, and thus is always good to hit with Anchor the Line. Martin Lund, "Rules for 12 December 2004", 15 Dec 2004
• Q: Greetings,
  Can I use Anchor the Line's reaction more than once on a unit that has moved into the battle. Say a unit moves in, a personality and 2 items on them, can I bow 3 cards systematically to destroy the whole unit?
  -Moto Matt
  A: You may only use each Reaction Ability once per trigger - as per the Diamond Edition Rulebook.
  Moving the Unit is a single trigger. You can React with Anchor the Line once. If you want to use it again, you have to move something again. Martin Lund, "Anchor the Line", 12 Jul 2005