Lying in Ambush
Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Celestial
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Reaction: After the resolution of your Battle, Limited, or Open action that created a non-Shadowlands Personality: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality with your Clan alignment at the same location.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
- Notes
- Legal June 8th, 2011, Released in Imperial Herald 3.6
Printings
Promotional–Celestial
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "Remain here, men. When the enemy diverts through this wood in an attempt to escape, ensure that none survive." -Shinjo Dun
- Artist
- Jarreau Wimberly
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Hello,
When I engage in a battle and react with Recruitment Officer to make a Personality can I react with Lying in Ambush to make another personality?
Recruitment Officer Text Retainer Bow this card: Produce 3 Gold. Reaction: After engaging at a battlefield where you control one or more units, bow this card: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Ronin • Samurai Personality there. Remove him from the game when this turns ends.
Lying in Ambush Text Reaction: After the resolution of your Battle, Limited, or Open action that created a non-Shadowlands Personality: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality with your Clan alignment at the same location.
A: No.
Lying in Ambush is only triggered by the creation of a Personality from a Battle, Limited, or Open ability, not a Reaction, as Recruitment Officier's ability is. Brook Cunningham, "Recruitment Officer & Lying in Ambush", 12 Dec 2011 - Q: In reference to: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=92259
Maybe I am misunderstanding how duels are created by actions. Does a duel action (i.e. Awed Witness) go through all of the action steps, then after step E. Action Ends, the duel is created or does the duel take place at some point during step D?
A: There is no rule that duels are delayed effects. They are just regular (albeit slightly lengthy) effects that occur in step D. There is no particular difference between that and something like "Bow it." Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011 - Q: Can one react to Awed Witness with Lying in Ambush?
A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011 - Q: Awed Witness create a delayed effect.
A: What gives you that idea? The card does not say anything about any effects occurring at a future time, which is the definition of a delayed effect (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Delayed_effects). Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011