Reflect the Spirit

Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Spirit

Card Text

Limited: Any number of times per turn, bow this Shugenja: Set aside a number of cards from the top of your Fate deck equal to the number in your hand, place your hand on top of your deck in any order, then take the set-aside cards into your hand.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Also, if I use Reflect the Spirit to put 6 cards on my deck and then take 6 cards off the top, can I use Shozo's trait after taking the top 5 cards to choose from X cards for the 6th card?
  A: "Draws" happen when you take the top card(s) off a deck, regardless of whether the term "draw" is used. Searching a deck to get a specific card is not "drawing." [DW, email] Revealing and returning cards to a deck is not "drawing." [JA, 20 August 2002] (Accumulated Rulings, "Draw")
  Hm, that's really a matter of whether putting those cards into your hand is considered to be a draw. By the most literal reading of what stands in the archive, this wouldn't fly because the cards are removed from the top of the deck and set aside, then cards are put on top of your deck, and then cards go from out-of-play to your hand, rather than directly from deck-to-hand as constitutes a draw.
  Unless Jeff deems otherwise, I'm going to have to rule that adding the cards to your hand via Reflect the Spirit does not count as "drawing cards" based on the ruling in the Archive. You don't "draw" cards stored off-the-deck any other time, so I don't see why this would be an exception, no matter how short the interval. Martin Lund, "Rules for 20 July 2004", 23 Jul 2004
• Q: If I place a faceup spell back onto my deck and any card requires shuffling it my opponent could manage to cut that spell to the bottom of the deck.
  A: Is that a statement or a question? Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 15 December 2003, Part 2", 16 Dec 2003