Power Corrupting

Legend of the Five Rings card from Glory of the Empire

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

4

Keywords

Kiho, Maho

Card Text

Open: Choose your performing unbowed Shugenja and destroy your other performing Personality: Create a 7F/4C/0PH Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni Personality. Lose 3 Honor. Permanently give your Shugenja Shadowlands.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Edited: already answered and the answer will be No.
  My opponent has played The Last One on a Personality. I take the Last's Personality with Enticement. I play some kill card on him, for example, Power Corrupting.
  Is The Last One Personality really destroyed? a) Yes b) No
  The Last One Open: Target your Personality: Destroy all of your other Personalities. If this destroyed at least four Personalities, permanently give your targeted Personality +4F, and until the end of the game, negate effects of other player's actions that bow, dishonor, move, or destroy him.
  Enticement Open: Pay Gold equal to the total Gold Cost of the targeted Personality's unit: Lose 3 Honor. Take control of a target Personality. While you control him, you may not assign his unit to attack and he will not move to attack. Before this turn ends, give control of him to his owner.
  Power Corrupting Kiho • Maho Open: Target your unbowed Shugenja and destroy another of your target Personalities: Create a 7F/4C Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni Personality. Lose 3 Honor. Your Shugenja permanently gains Shadowlands.
  A: The answer is yes, as long as the destruction is for a cost.
  The Last One prevents other players' effects from killing him (remember that "other players" is interpreted from the point of view of the person who took the action) - but it doesn't stop other players destroying him to pay costs. Alex Jones, "The Last One + Enticement + some kill way", 3 Sep 2010
• Q: In relation to this ruling: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=83090
  If an opponent has forgotten or not paid attention to the effect, and announces Power Corrupting with intent on killing a ronin PErsonality to the cost. Which of the following is correct?
  a) Announcing the action is illegal, and is put back into hand. b) Announcing the action is a legal play, and must now target someone who CAN be destroyed to pay costs. c) Announcing the action is a legal play, as is targetting a ronin for destruction due to Blind Cards, and the card is discarded without effect. d) Announcing the action is a legal play, as is targetting a ronin for destruction due to Blind Cards, 4 gold is paid, and the card is discarded without any further effect. e) Other
  A: From a strictly CCG Rules standpoint wherein we assume in examples that all plays are made intentionally with full knowledge of all factors and we just evaluate their correctness, "c" and "d" are never true due to their second part (that announcing the action AND targeting the ronin are legal) due to ruling you linked.
  However, beyond that, the CCG Rules provide no definite "right" answer from your other choices. At what point your opponent's "mistake" is forced upon him or not is between the two of you in a casual game, or a matter for a judge in a tournament, so this question probably would be better answered here. Brook Cunningham, "Hida's Guidance and The Badgers Live", 27 Apr 2010