Reserve Commander
Legend of the Five Rings card from Winds of Change, Twenty Festivals, Promotional–Twenty Festivals
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 2
- Keywords
- Retainer
- Card Text
- Interrupt, w: If the action is another player's, before it destroys one of your Personalities at the current battlefield, create a 0F/1C/1PH Personality and transfer your first Personality's Followers to him. Destroy this Holding.
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Winds of Change
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Chris Seaman
- Card Number
- 23
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Be ready in case the general has need of us. Keep the men in position."
- Artist
- Chris Seaman
- Card Number
- 30
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Promotional–Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "Be ready in case the general has need of us. Keep the men in position."
- Artist
- Chris Seaman
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Bypasses attachment requirements and restrictions, because it says the new Personality is created "leading that unit." [ZF, 26 August 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 85
Rules Q&A
- Q: This came up in a game this weekend, I thought it had been ruled on already but couldn't find it, at least not under the cards being played.
The cards in question are:
Reserve commander: Reaction: When another player's card or action destroys one of your personalities in the current battle, bow and destroy Reserve Commander to prevent that unit's Followers from being destroyed and create a 0f/1c Personality with 1 Personal Honor leading that unit.
To Do What We Must Battle: Destroy one of your units in this battle to destroy an opposing unit with total Force less than or equal to your unit's Force, plus your Personality's Personal Honor, plus 2 if your personality is Crane Clan.
If you are in a battle, and use TDWWM to destroy the UNIT, can your opponent use Reserve Commander to save the followers?
A: No. The Followers are being destroyed twice: once by the explicit effect of TDWWM and once as an implicit result of their Personality being destroyed. Reserve Commander only prevents the second. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 8 March 2004", 9 Mar 2004 - Q: How [does] Reserve Commander work for followers with an honour requirement of 2 or more or that have attachment restrictions like Lion's Pride/Kenshinzen.
A: Reserve Commander bypasses attachment requirements, because it says the new Personality is created "leading that unit" (card text). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 26 August 2003", 27 Aug 2003