New Year's Celebration
Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Shadowlands, Gold Edition, Storms Over Matsu Palace, Shattered Empire
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- Card Type
- Event
- Keywords
- Unique
- Card Text
- After you reveal cards in your Provinces at the start of your turn, if this Event is face-up in one of them, each player discards his hand, then draws five cards.
- Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade), Rain of Blood (Diamond), Shattered Empire
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Diamond Edition
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "The most mysterious of all nights of the year. One never quite knows what to expect." - Rezan, Ronin Poet
- Artist
- Garry McKee
- Card Number
- 482
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Shadowlands
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Nicola Leonard
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Gold Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- One grim face cannot spoil the brightest festival of the year.
- Artist
- Garry McKee
- Card Number
- 294
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Storms Over Matsu Palace
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- New Year's Day, the snow is melting
Birds sing, and the village is flooded
With children.
- Rezan the Ronin Poet - Artist
- Nicola Leonard
- Card Number
- Unicorn 18
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Shattered Empire
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- The hope for something better.
- Artist
- Nicola Leonard
- Card Number
- 5
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rulings
- One player discards then draws, then a second player discards then draws, then a third player, etc. The order is chosen by the active player. [JA, 20 August 2002] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 74
Rules Q&A
- Q: Unexpected Strike and Ongoing effects: What about Imperial Ambassdorship, Birth of the Sword, New Years Celebration or any other event which allows to draw cards?
A: They aren't ongoing effects. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 18 December 2003, Part 2", 19 Dec 2003 - Q: Also, for New Year's Celebration, could you (i.e. Jeff, Zen, Vaughn or Shosho) please tell me a little about the timing for New Year's Celebration? It's my turn and I flip New Year's Celebration. The following things happen, but I don't know what order they happen in:
a) I discard my hand b) my opponent discards his hand c) I draw 5 cards (one at a time) d) my opponent draws 5 cards (one at a time)
Obviously, (a) must come before (c) and (b) must come before (d), but can I choose the order of effects outside of that? Can I choose to have the effects resolve (b), (d), (a), (c) - if I already have Draw Them Out in my hand or (a), (c), (b), (d) if I don't yet have Draw Them Out in my hand and I'm hoping that it's in my next 5 cards?
Or, perhaps, do both my opponent and I each discard our hands and then each of us alternates drawing one card at a time until we have drawn 5 cards?
A: One player discards then draws, then a second player discards then draws, then a third player, etc. The order is chosen by the active player. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 20 August 2002", 21 Aug 2002