Anvil of Despair
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test, Samurai Edition Banzai
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Keywords
- Unique, Experienced, Shadowlands
- Card Text
- Maho Limited: Remove a Personality you own and control from the game to create a Shadowlands • Weapon Item with a Force Modifier equal to the removed Personality's Force plus Chi, attach it to your target Personality, and lose 5 Honor, or 1 Honor if you control an Artisan.
- Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Dynasty
- Story
- 2005 Courage and Despair - James Lippens
Printings
The Truest Test
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "Let others have honor. We shall have victory." - Daidoji Shihei
- Artist
- Michael Kaluta
- Card Number
- 5
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Samurai Edition Banzai
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Michael Kaluta
- Card Number
- 2
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: (I)f you use the (Experienced) Anvil of Despair's ability on (Diagotsu) Yajinden (Experienced 2), and assuming you have no other artisans in play, would you lose 1 Honor or 5 Honor?
A: "Use the ability on Daigotsu Yajinden" is a little vague. Is he involved in the cost or receiving the weapon?
If the former, you'd lose 5; if the latter, 1. You check the condition when the effect occurs. Zen Faulkes, "Anvil of Despair Exp + Daigotsu Yajinden Exp 2", 28 Aug 2008 - Q: or the Anvil of Despair xp's weapon token
A: It is not a token. "Create a Shadowlands Weapon Item with a Force bonus equal to the removed Personality's Force plus Chi." Nowhere is the word token mentioned. Zen Faulkes, "Tokens that represent a card type", 9 Nov 2007