Preserve Your Forces
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Dead of Winter, Three Dynasties
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Reaction: After another player's action targets your Personality at the current battlefield, choose your performing Commander there: Transfer one or more of the Personality's Followers to one of your other Personalities (at any location).
- Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial), Three Dynasties
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Dead of Winter
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "The left flank is overwhelmed. Transfer what forces you can from it-although most will die, a few will live to avenge their comrades on a later day." - Mirumoto Ayabe
- Artist
- Viktor Fetsch
- Card Number
- 139
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Three Dynasties
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "There will be other wars."
- Artist
- Viktor Fetsch
- Card Number
- 436
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rules Q&A
- Q: The implication seems to be that you can still play Preserve Your Forces in this situation and move a follower onto the Personality targeted by Settling the Homeless. Would that not be an illegal play as per card text...
A: Edited the answer to clarify. Brook Cunningham, "Preserve Your Forces question", 21 Feb 2011 - Q: It is legal to announce Preserve Your Forces, but since the targeted personality has no followers, the effects do nothing, yes?
A: Correct. Brook Cunningham, "Preserve Your Forces question", 21 Feb 2011 - Q: Could I react with Preserve Your Forces to transfer a follower to the Commander that was targeted with Settling and make that Commander an ineligible target and make his action have no effect?
A: No.
Preserve Your Forces' trigger is "After" the targeting has already occurred. Making a Personality an illegal target after the targeting has already occurred will not invalidate the targeting or make the effects fail. It would take an explicit card effect for that to occur (see Night Watchers).
EDIT: And besides the fact that invalidating targets after the fact doesn't make effects fail without specific card text, Preserve Your Forces only moves Followers FROM the targeted Personality, not TO him. Brook Cunningham, "Preserve Your Forces question", 19 Feb 2011