Lady Matsu's Rage

Legend of the Five Rings card from Embers of War

Card Type

Celestial

Keywords

Unique

Card Text

After your action resolves that destroyed any Personalities: Remove them from the game.
Battle: Choose your performing unbowed attacking Personality, target an enemy card, and discard this card: Bow the target. After the next time (this turn) it straightens, destroy it.

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2010 Name a Card - Diego Lastorta

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I used Lady Matsu's Rage on some peep but the bowing was negated. Then next I used The Slow Death on the unbowed peep to Straighten it, does Matsu's Rage destroy it?
  A: No. If the card is already straightened, the effect of straightening it will fail, and thus Lady Matsu's Rage will not trigger. Jon Palmer, "Lady matsu and Straightening a straight card.", 17 Mar 2013
• Q: Lady Matsu's Rage - Battle: Choose your performing unbowed attacking Personality, target an enemy card, and discard this card: Bow the target. After the next time (this turn) it straightens, destroy it.
  Kakita Kae - After a Battle action targets Kae, you may discard the Imperial Favor: If you did, negate Kae's destruction, bowing, and movement from the action's effects.
  I know that I can negate Kae's bowing from Matsu's Rage's Battle action. I just wanted to confirm that if she happens to bow sometime later on but then straightens, that the destruction part of Matsu's Rage's effect would also be negated.
  It seems like the destruction should be negated but the delayed timing of the destruction was something that I wanted to check on.
  A: Kae's negation lasts for the same duration as the delayed effect, until the turn ends, so she would not be destroyed by Lady Matsu's Rage's delayed effect. Brook Cunningham, "Lady Matsu's Rage vs Kakita Kae", 25 May 2012
• Q: If I have Lady Matsu's Rage out and I target a berzerker with a kill action and my opponent delays it with Halls of the Forgotten, will Lady Matsu's Rage trait be triggered?
  I'm thinking not because the action will resolve and the berserker will not have been destroyed at the time of the action's resolution.
  Even after the battle ends and the berserker dies, I don't think the trait will trigger then either, correct?
  A: Until Embers of War is released, this thread about Halls of the Forgotten and Feign Death may be useful. Alex Jones, "Lady Matsu's Rage and Halls of the Forgotten", 7 May 2012