Rage

Legend of the Five Rings card from Winds of Change

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Personality and target an enemy Personality: Your Personality challenges the target. He may refuse; if he did, you may search your Fate deck for a Battle Strategy and you may take an additional Battle action to play it. Both Personalities use Force as their duel stat. Bow the duel's loser.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Matsu's Rage Tactical Battle : Target a Personality in his controller's home. Move him into the current defending army. If he moved, straighten his unit. Kaneka
  Tactical Battle: Bow an opposing unit. That unit's controller may instead bow at least two other units whose combined total Force exceeds Kaneka's Chi.
  a.. If a player chooses to bow two units when his second ability is used, the other units to be bowed instead must be in the same army as the targeted unit. [Erratum, JA, 11 May 2004]
  And here is the combo : I attack, say, with kaneka. Kaneka is my Attacking army. I have a Koto at home.
  The defender is a military deck (if he won't, it would be no fun) and assigns a lot of personality to defend.
  I won't focus on the defender's actions.
  My first action : I use Kaneka to perform a Matsu's Rage on my own Koto, so that he moves to the opposing army.
  A: Okay. Koto won't move though. Units you control can't enter an army unless you are its leader or a confirmed ally of its leader. And that pretty much ruins the rest of your clever combo. Martin Lund, "Rules for 3 November 2004", 5 Nov 2004
• Q: Put another way, Wedge and Berzerker Rage do not actually increase force, they merely reset it based on some formula. The new value is indeed higher than the previous, but it is technically NOT a force increase, and so not eligible for force gain reactions such as Overconfidence.
  A: Nope. That's completely false. Berserker Rage and Wedge both create Force Bonuses as well, typically +X where X = targets current Force at the time of doubling. They are both subject to Overconfidence to great effect. Martin Lund, "Rules for 23 July 2004", 26 Jul 2004
• Q: Scenario:
  Goblin Wizard in fief, Ratling Raider in the current battle.
  Can You? Announce Casting of Jinkoku's Rage Bow Bloodspeakers Sanctum to allow the Ratling Raiders to cast the Kiho, giving it the Bloodspeaker trait Target Ratling Raider (now a valid target) with Jinkoku's Rage Bow Goblin Wizard to cast Kiho
  A: Yes. Announce the Jigoku's Rage. React to "before" it by using the Sanctum to make the Ratling Raider a legal caster. Use any legal caster to cast Jigoku's Rage - in this case, Goblin Wizard. Martin Lund, "Rules for 5 July 2004", 7 Jul 2004
• Q: Looking at the wording of Rage and Superior Strategist can either card be used to fetch and play terrains or formations?
  A: Yes. Both card types play as Battle Actions, just special kinds of Battle Actions (they stay in play, get destroyed, and other fun and weird stuff). Martin Lund, "Rules for 21 April 2004", 23 Apr 2004
• Q: b) My opponent plays Rage, I refuse and he searches his deck for another card and plays it; I think Ieshige gains +2F on both cases but I'm not sure about it. Thanks!
  A: +1F. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 1 March 2004", 2 Mar 2004
• Q: If the event honor and glory resolves, and I play a Test of might and a Rage and win both, do I gain 5 and 2 or 3 and 0?
  A: The former, but note that there are still two honor gains, not one big gain. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 14 December 2003, Part 2", 15 Dec 2003
• Q: If an opponent refuses the challenge created by my Rage, would I search for and play a Battle action before Kitsuki Kaagi (or Iweko) would bow to challenge that personality to an unrefusable duel?
  Rage tells you to search "if" the challenge is refused. Iweko's Reaction is used "after" the refusal. You would search for and play a Battle action first. [card text]
  This sounds like a contradiction...
  You're right. Looks like I ruled incorrectly. Zen, could you fix this please?
  A: [taps on microphone]
  "Hey everybody! Forget about the dumb ruling Jeff that made!"
  [brushes dust off hands] That oughtta do it...
  ;) Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 3 November 2003, Part 2", 4 Nov 2003
• Q: "One of the key plays in one of my games against Crane in Toronto this past weekend was using a Saori-locked tactician at home to Rage in my opponent's Saori and Slaughter her, thus ending her reign of terror." - I admit I don't have the rulebook in front of me, but I thought bowed personalities couldn't perform actions?
  A: That's completely untrue. You find that Rulebook. It is available for viewing online. Check the sticky on this very forum for a link right to it.
  You can't use Actions that are on bowed cards unless they would unbow the card. Rage of Matsu is not bowed.
  Bowed Personalities can't perform Actions that create Challenges as part of their effects, nor can Shugenja Cast Spells while bowed.
  There was a rule back in Gold Edition that you couldn't target your own bowed Personalities with your Acitons, but that rule never made it into the Diamond Edition Rulebook. Martin Lund, "Confusion over some rules interpretations...", 23 Mar 2005
• Q: When searching my fate deck for battle action to play, using either Superior Strategist or Rage, I'm required to immediately play the card for one of it's battle actions. Does the battle action on Shiranai Toshi to play a terrain from your hand count towards this if I searched for the terrain?
  A: No. The action must be on the card retreived. Zen Faulkes, "Shiranai Toshi Question", 8 Mar 2005
• Q: Now according to the second part of rage of the Matsu:
  Tactical Battle: Target a Personality in his controller's home. Move him into the current defending army. If he moved, straighten his unit
  now if i am defending and the attacker has someone at home, using this the way it is worded i should be able to bring that peronality into my army because i am defending. i have been told that i cannot because i am not his controller, but according to the wording i do not have to be the controller if i am the defending army, just as long as the personality is in his controllers home when i play this action. Is this correct? or just bad wording?
  A: Nope. Archive, General, Battle, Action Segment: Units can't enter an army unless your its leader or ally. Zen Faulkes, "Rage, Rage, and more Rage.", 3 Mar 2005
• Q: the way it is worded i should be able to bring that peronality into my army because i am defending.
  A: Nope. Archive, General, Battle, Action Segment: Units can't enter an army unless your its leader or ally. Zen Faulkes, "Rage, Rage, and more Rage.", 2 Mar 2005