Prayers and Blessings
Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Gold
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Elemental, Kiho
- Card Text
- Battle/Open: Choose your performing unbowed Monk or Shugenja and target a Personality: Give him +1F or +1C. When the turn ends, if this card is in your discard pile, you may put it in your hand.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Promotional–Gold
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "Put away your sword, Tsudao-chan. It is faith, not steel, that will save the Empire." - Chiang-Tsu
- Artist
- Steve Snyder
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Do you bring back Prayers and Blessing into your hand before or after discarding cards to keep only 8 ?
A: You have to Discard down to 8 before you can go to the end of your turn. Prayers and Blessings comes back to your hand at the end of the turn, consequently always after you've already done your discard for the turn. Martin Lund, "Rules for 28 July 2004", 30 Jul 2004 - Q: Does Temple of Hoshi allow me to target any Dragon Clan Personality instead of a Monk in order to use Prayers and Blessings?
A: No, it allows you to play Prayers and Blessings (and any other Kiho) with any of your Dragon Clan Personalities as the caster - as if - they were a Monk, just like it says. Martin Lund, "Rules for 21 July 2004", 23 Jul 2004 - Q: 5 - Does a personality have to be unbowed to cast a kiho like Prayers and Blessings ?
A: "Kiho can be cast by bowed Personalities if the kiho or Personality does not require bowing (e.g., Togashi Satsu, Experienced). [JA, 15 September 2003]" (Accumulate Rulings, "Kiho") Martin Lund, "Rules for 8 June 2004", 10 Jun 2004 - Q: Prayers and Blessings [...] seems to [imply] that you can have more than 8 cards in your hand, if you've played Prayers and Blessings earlier in the turn.
A: Yes (Gold Edition rulebook, pg. 59). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 16 October 2003, Part 2", 16 Oct 2003 - Q: Does Hoshi Kumonosu also add his force to army's total when he's bowed?
A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 12 September 2003", 12 Sep 2003 - Q: Is Prayers and Blessings tournament legal now?
A: No. Not until Diamond is legal. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 12 September 2003", 12 Sep 2003