Laying in Wait

Legend of the Five Rings card from Path of the Destroyer, Battle of Kyuden Tonbo

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target your performing unbowed Samurai to make a Ranged 3 Attack.
Battle: Target your performing unbowed Samurai to make a Ranged 6 Attack that is compared against Gold Cost instead of Force.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If you are in a battle vs someone with a gold cost of 7 and have Toritaka Okabe in your army, can you use the laying in wait to do a ranged 7 against gold cost?
  A: Yes. Brook Cunningham, "Laying in Wait + Toritaka Okabe", 14 Apr 2010
• Q: I assume this ruling also pertains to basic ranged attacks from strategies (final duty) as well?
  A: The answer is "No" on that one, for (almost) the exact reason that you gave: (my changes are in brackets) Brook Cunningham, "Laying in Wait + Toritaka Okabe", 14 Apr 2010
• Q: There are several cards out there that target the gold cost now instead of force, my question is about personalities with attached items. Do attached items count toward the gold cost or do cards like Laying in Wait and Utogu no Oni effects ignore items?
  A: They ignore items. Cards do not add to a personalities gold cost unless otherwise specified. Dan Jacobson, "Targeting Gold Cost instead of Force", 24 Mar 2010
• Q: Arrows do not falter: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack targets a card: Give the Ranged Attack +2 strength.
  Outer Walls: Reaction: After a Ranged Attack is targeted: Give it -2 strength.
  Laying in Wait: Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai: Ranged 6 Attack whose strength is compared against Gold Cost instead of Force.
  Ok, laying in wait tagets my 6 GC personality, I react with outer walls to make it a ranged str of 4 rather than 6. Is it then possible for the player of laying in wait to react to my reaction with arrows do not falter, or do they have to react initially when they play laying in wait?
  It sounds like at any time after a ranged attack is taken you can play either card which makes me
  thanks
  A: Technically the Reaction of Arrows do not Falter does not "react to" the Reaction of Outer Walls.
  It is a Reaction that is timed "After a Ranged Attack targets a card".
  The sequence goes like this.
  Player A is the active player. Player A announces Laying in Wait Player A targets his Samurai, and an opposing card with 6GC (and lets say 5F just so it is obvious which effect Player A will choose) --Player A chooses to pass on reactions to after targeting ---Player B announces and plays the Reaction on Outer Walls ---Player's A and B pass on reaction to the reaction on Outer Walls --Player A then chooses to react to the targeting, and announces and plays the Reaction on Arrows do not Falter
  Etc., the targeted card is still destroyed assuming no other reactions, etc.
  Please do not forget the timing of when a card is able to be used.
  To answer your question though, The timing of Outer Walls' Reaction and the Reaction on Arrows do not Falter is the same. Dan Jacobson, "Arrows do not falter and timing", 19 Feb 2010