Near Miss

Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Celestial

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets one of your attachments: Negate the attachment's destruction from the action's effects.
Reaction: When paying for an attachment: Produce 2 Gold.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Notes

Legal August 1st, 2011, Released in the 2011 Kotei pack

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Does the 'may' in Sundering Strike apply to the attachment targeting and gold payment separately (like 'Shadowlands personality or follower' is read [Shadowlands personality] or [Shadowlands follower]) or are they a single optional clause? Can you target the attachment but not pay the gold and so not destroy the attachment?
  Player A targets player B's personality with an attachment. He chooses to target the attachment and player B wishes to play Near Miss. The window for Near Miss appears to be before the gold is paid. If the targeting and gold payment are separate options player A could choose not to pay the gold (as they attachment isn't going to be destroyed) or be unable to pay the gold and just want to bait out a potential Near Miss. If the targeting and gold payment are the same single optional clause this cannot happen.
  Incidentally if the latter is true:
  Player A targets player B's personality with an attachment whose gold cost is 5. He chooses to target the attachment and player B wishes to play Near Miss but player A has no available gold. Before playing Near Miss can player B request that a judge confirm that player A can pay the required 1 gold from their hand (ie confirm the good faith)?
  Card Text:
  Sundering Strike:
  Battle: Target an enemy Personality: You may target one of his attachments and pay Gold equal to its Gold Cost minus four. If you did, destroy it. Move the Personality home.
  Near Miss:
  Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets one of your attachments: Negate the attachment's destruction from the action's effects.
  A: The "may" applies to the targeting and the cost payment together, from the rules for Effects, Choices: A choice involving multiple effects following a "may" must be taken in an all-or-none fashion, unless they are phrased as alternatives to each other using "or." Example: "He may target one of his Shugenja and discard a card." If this choice is taken, the targeting and discard are both either carried out or not carried out; there is no option to target a Shugenja and not discard. Compare with "he may target one of his Shugenja and may discard a card," in which the two choices are separate; either, none, or both options may be taken. Also, in "he may target one of his Shugenja or discard a card," one choice or the other (but not both) may be taken.
  The Good Faith Rule only applies to the announcement of actions, so you may target an attachment even though you cannot pay the subsequent cost. However, if you can pay the cost, you must: although the cost is an optional cost, once you have chosen to activate the "You may ..." clause, it ceases to be optional. Alex Jones, "Sundering Strike and Attachment Destruction", 12 Jan 2012