Arriving at the Imperial Gates
Legend of the Five Rings card from The War of Spirits
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Imperial, Terrain
- Card Text
- Before this battle's resolution: Until this battle ends, give each non-Shadowlands Personality at the current battlefield a Force penalty equal to the difference between his base Force and Personal Honor if his base Force is higher, or an equivalent bonus if his Personal Honor is higher.
Battle: If there are no Terrains at the current battlefield: Put this card into play there. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The War of Spirits
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "We stand at a time of crisis. Before us lie the road of the past and the road of the future. Which one will you follow?" - Toturi the First
- Artist
- Talon Dunning
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: Arriving at the Imperial Gates Tadenori receives a 3 force bonus in battle, Arriving at the Imperial Gates resolves. What will his force be? 3 (only his personal honor) or 6 (personal honor + 3 force bonus)?
A: 6. His *printed* Force changes. Changing a stat's base or printed value does not reset the total. Jeff Alexander, "post for 6 May 2003", 7 May 2003 - Q: If the force of personalities has been changed, such as with Arriving at the Imperial Gates, and To the Last Man is played, are bowed cards destroyed at full "printed" value or full "force if I wasn't bowed" value?
A: Current force, with bowed cards contributing as though not bowed, as specified on Gold Edition text. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 11 July 2001", 12 Jul 2001 - Q: The question basically relates to Land of the Dead and the terrain Arriving at the Imperial Gates (great for spirits & Shadowlands). Say I have 3 spirits defending there with PH of 3 and force of 0 (ok, lets just call them Bayushi Meharu) and one spirit with a PH of 2 and force of 1. I then play Arriving at the Imperial Gates, my question being when the battle is resolved do the Meharu's have just 3F (for the terrain) or 6F (terrain & region) and will the other spirit have just 2F (terrain) or 5F (terrain & region)?
A: 5F, for the terrain and the region. Arriving at the Imperial Gates only changes their printed force, so any in-place modifications to their force would continue to be in place, adding or subtracting to/from their new 'printed' force. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for February 2nd", 3 Feb 2001