Kharmic Confrontation

Legend of the Five Rings card from Enemy of My Enemy

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kharmic

Card Text

Battle: Target a Personality owned by the Defender and a Personality in the current battlefield's province: The target in the province enters play in the current defending army, controlled by his owner, ignoring all costs. Refill the province with the first target. (Discard his attachments.)

Focus Value

3

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I am attacking, and I play Kharmic Confrontation, targeting my opponents personality with attachments, what happens to the attachments when he is swapped into the providence?
  A: First of all, he's not being swapped into Rhode Island.
  Second, the (Discard his attached cards.) reminder text is still valid.
  Long explanation of that, in case anyone wants to argue the point: I realize that the CR says "When a Personality leaves play, all his attached cards leave play in the same manner as he did" without consideration for this one-off case of the Personality going into a province. But, Fate cards can't be in provinces, so the same thing would happen to them that would happen to a Personality that couldn't be in the province (due to, for example, Akuma no Oni being Kharmic'd in from it causing it to cease to be); they'd stay in play. BUT, "Attachments cannot be in play without being attached to a Personality unless an effect specifically allows this. An attachment that finds itself in play without a Personality (for example, one whose destruction was prevented but its Personality's destruction was not), and without an effect allowing this state, is immediately and continually discarded." (Citation) Brook Cunningham, "Kharmic Confrontation and attachments", 11 May 2008
• Q: What if the guy I'm swapping is dishonored, is he still dishonored, or rehonored? What if said person was targeted with Arrival of the Obsidian Champion? Or Utter Defeat?
  A: I believe this covers all 3 of the above questions (as the second two were follow-ups, in case I said "rehonored", which I'm not):
  http://rules.l5r.com/Physically_marked_card_states#Honorable_and_dishonorable: "A Personality out of play can be dishonorable if he or she is face-up. Leaving or entering play does not change a Personality’s dishonorable or honorable status." Brook Cunningham, "Kharmic Confrontation and attachments", 11 May 2008
• Q: Last (sorry). What if the target to be swapped in is a token (created personality) ?
  A: First, token =/= created Personality. Created cards are cards. Tokens are never cards. This is true even in Legacy Format:
  http://rules.l5r.com/Older_Cards#For_cards_printed_prior_to_KHAN.27S_DEFIANCE: "Things that say they create tokens with a card type (such as “Follower tokens”) create cards of that type instead of tokens. Likewise, any text that refers to a "token" or "non-token" card type should be read as referring to "created" or "non-created"."
  And, second, http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_C#Created_cards: "Created cards cannot exist out of play."
  So, this would happen. (For Lotus/Diamond card questions, it doesn't hurt to search http://www.alderac.com/forumold/; just be mindful of rules changes that may affect what you read). Brook Cunningham, "Kharmic Confrontation and attachments", 11 May 2008
• Q: Kharmic Confrontation Battle: Target a Personality owned by the Defender at the current battlefield and a Personality in the battlefield's Province. Bring the target in the Province into the defending army, controlled by his owner(ignoring all costs). Fill the Province with the first target. (Discard his attached cards.) When I play a Kharmic Confrontation on a face-down ninja in the Defender army, I fill the province with him face-down or face-up?
  A: Assuming Lotus or Legacy rules, face down. The Samurai rules have no special rules/effects for cards with the Ninjutsu trait. Chris Fuchs, "Kharmic Confrontation + face-down ninja", 14 Aug 2007