Master of Destiny

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Dark Journey Home

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho

Card Text

Reaction: Before an Event resolves, bow your performing Monk or Shugenja: The Event does not resolve and is put face-up in your rightmost province, discarding the Dynasty card there. If you do not have a Dynasty card in your rightmost province, discard the Event instead of placing it there. The Event will resolve as if it was yours the next time you would resolve an Event in that province.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• May be used on your own event, even one appearing in your rightmost Province (i.e., the event may "replace" itself). [JA, 12 September 2000] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 58

Rules Q&A

• Q: Just to confirm: If my opponent plays a Master of Destiny when my Welcome Home resolves, so the honor will be gain by him, right? So, if he is a Spirit player, the Welcome Home simply won't resolve? It's something like an Avoid Fate when played by a Spirit player?
  A: Master of Destiny does not make an Event resolve for you immediately. It steals the Event from your opponent before it resolves and puts it in your Province. Then, on YOUR first following Events Phase, it resolves using all the normal rules...which means that, as a Spirit player, you won't get anything. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 8 September", 11 Sep 2001
• Q: Two timing questions came up recently, involving events...
  1) Suppose an event comes up in my leftmost province. My opponent plays Master of Destiny to place it in his/her rightmost province. Can I play Master of Destiny, reacting to the revealing of the event, to place it back into my own rightmost province, and thus have it resolve on the same turn?
  A: You're still in the same Reaction window, and it's legal for an Event to be Mastered more than once. It would resolve again when you got to your rightmost province. It also seems like it's legal to react to one of your own Events with Master of Destiny, if just to get it into your rightmost province. This leads to interesting situations with Shinsei's Shrine, and in cases where the Event in question is already in your rightmost province!
  BTW - In the latter case, the Event would momentarily leave your rightmost province so that it can be put there. In that instant, the province gets refilled, and then that new card is discarded to be replaced with the Event. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for December 27th", 27 Dec 2000
• Q: 2) Supppose an event pops up. I play The Time Is Now, allowing me to play an open event before it resolves. My opponent wants to Master of Destiny my event. Does my open action occur before his/her reaction, or do I have to let my opponent take a reaction (I guess the question would be, is the open action part of the resolving of Time is Now, or is it it's own separate reaction)?
  A: The Open action is part of The Time is Now's resolution. Your Open action is resolved before he gets a chance to MoD the Event. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for December 27th", 27 Dec 2000