Last Line of Defense
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Harbinger
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Event
- Keywords
- Unique
- Card Text
- After you reveal cards in your Provinces at the start of your turn, if this Event is face-up in one of them, until the game ends, give each of your Provinces +2 strength and, after each time an Attacker destroys one of your Provinces during battle resolution, he draws two cards.
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
The Harbinger
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- As long as one samurai remains, Rokugan will not fall.
- Artist
- Mark Poole
- Card Number
- 4
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: One -- I think last -- followup on this:
Just to confirm, am I correct that both Last Line of Defense and Strengthening Protection produce ongoing effects of this nature?
A: Both specify durations, so are ongoing (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Ongoing_effects). Zen Faulkes, "Last Line of Defense, Return to the Heavens, et al.", 21 May 2011 - Q: So I saw this and thought I'll add my two cents.
The reason the indicated cards don't affect provinces created after their resolution is because their card text uses "each" instead of the "all" wording necessary to apply to provinces created later. Per the rule quoted by the original poster. "Each of your X" is a different type of ongoing effect from "all of your X".
Could be totally wrong there but, each =/= all seems to be the most straight forward answer to me.
A: I'm not finding a clear distinction in the rules between "each" and "all". I'm very reluctant to suggest a distinction, because it would affect so many cards. Zen Faulkes, "Last Line of Defense, Return to the Heavens, et al.", 16 May 2011