Lobbyist
Legend of the Five Rings card from An Oni's Fury
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 6
- Keywords
- Imperial, Retainer
- Card Text
- Political Reaction: Before paying a cost of discarding the Imperial Favor, bow and destroy this card: This pays the cost instead.
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
An Oni's Fury
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- Remata seized Heikichi's scroll with disbelief. There, the line of the Yasuki was illustrated in exquisite detail, with a familiar name on a long-forgotten branch... Kaneka's mother, the geisha Hatsuko.
- Artist
- beet
- Card Number
- 23
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Lobbyist: Imperial Retainer. Political Reaction: Bow and destroy Lobbyist to pay the cost of using the Imperial favor.
Do you need to possess the Imperial favor to be able to use this effect?
A: No. Lobbyist (and Acquiring Favor) were designed to be used as replacement costs for the Imperial Favor, available to anyone who wanted to devote deck space to using them. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for August 8th, 2003", 8 Aug 2003 - Q: 1.) My Wind is Hantei Naseru. I have the Imperial Favor in play, as well as a Lobbyist. At the beginning of my opponent's turn, I ditch the Favor to reduce all his gains in his Action Phase by half. I then bow and destroy the Lobbyist for exactly the same effect. Are my opponent's honor gains during the Action Phase then *quartered*?
A: As people have pointed out, A) Naseru is only usable at the beginning of your own turn, and B) he can only be used once, irrespective of how many times you can pay the cost of discarding the Favor, because of the rule against using a single printed Reaction multiple times on the same trigger. Jeff Alexander, "post for 18 December 2001", 19 Dec 2001