Overpowering Assault

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Plague War

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Commander, bow his performing Follower, and target an enemy card without attachments: Destroy it.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi there,
  A quick question about who performs an action, if the personality or a follower. The cards involved: Toritaka Chokichi: "Battle: Bow your performing Follower: Ranged 4 Attack which may target a Personality with attached Followers if you have Reconaissance." Iron Will: "Reaction: After another player targets your Paragon with a Battle action performed by a Personality with lower Personal Honor: The action's costs are ignored and its effects are negated. That player may take an additional Battle action." Overpowering Assault:Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Commander and bow his performing Follower: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments.
  1) Toritaka Chokichi uses his printed battle against a Paragon with higher personal honor. Who is performing the action, Chokichi or the follower? Can I cancelt it with Iron Will? 2) A commander uses Overpowering Assault against a Paragon with higher ph. Again, who is performing? The card says that both the commander and the follower are performing.
  Thanks a lot!
  A: 1. Per the rules on performed actions, any ability printed on a Personality is performed by that Personality. Chokichi is performing the action, and so is the Follower, since the Chokichi's text states that the Follower is performing.
  2. In this case, the Commander is performing, and again, so is the Follower, per the text of Overpowering Assault.
  And, to answer the second half of question 1 in regard to both actions:
  In both cases, Iron Will is legal to play assuming the action targeted Paragon with higher Personal Honor than the performing Personality. Brook Cunningham, "Iron Will vs Toritaka Chokichi / Overpowering Assault", 18 Sep 2011
• Q: Can I us overpowering Assault to destroy my opponent's terrain?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Glossary_E#Enemy: "In a phrase such as "an enemy card," "enemy" does not refer to cards outside of units(.)" Emphasis added.
  Terrains aren't in units, so: No. Zen Faulkes, "Overpowering Assault vs Terrain.", 6 Sep 2010