Resumed Hostilities

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Lotus Edition, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target an enemy Personality: Remove one of his abilities. Draw a card. If you removed an ability, you may take an additional Battle action from a card in your hand.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Resumed Hostilities 0G 2FV Battle: Target a Personality opposing one of your Personalities. Remove one of the target’s abilities. Draw a card. If you removed an ability, you may take an additional Battle action from a card in your hand." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 151

Rules Q&A

• Q: Pertaining to Akodo Shigetoshi Exp (Khan's Defiance) and Resumed Hostilities (Samurai), if the ability that Shigetoshi gives all tacticians that a player controls is removed by resumed hostilities, would his trait immediately give it back to the personality that it was removed from?
  A: No.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Continuous_traits: "If an effect granted by a continuous trait is negated or undone by another cost or effect, the continuous trait does not immediately apply again." Zen Faulkes, "Akodo Shigetoshi Exp and Resumed Hostilities", 27 Apr 2009
• Q: If we are at Battle 1, can he use (Resumed Hostilities) to target units in Battle 2? As long as he has Presence at battle 1 and 2.
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Choose_Battlefield: "The Rule of Location: ... Any cards in units must be at the current battlefield to be legally targeted by a Battle action." Emphasis added.
  No. Zen Faulkes, "Resumed Hostilities and location", 30 Jan 2008
• Q: Battle: Target a Personality opposing one of your Personalities. Remove one of the target’s abilities. Draw a card. If you removed an ability, you may take an additional Battle action from a card in your hand.
  A: The Equip action granted by the rulebook is not an action from a card in your hand. Chris Fuchs, "Resumed Hostilities", 21 Sep 2007
• Q: Can my oponent use Reinforce The Gates on the battle I gained after using Resumed Hostilities on a naval invasion/sneak attack?
  Ex: I declare naval invasion and anounce Resumed Hostilities, my oponent doesn't react with Reinforce The Gates so I remove a ability from a oposing peep, draw a card and then make another battle from Resumed, can he use Reinforce on that?
  I assume it's possible since he didn't have the chance to act.
  Thanks in advance.
  Resumed Hostilities:
  Battle: Target a Personality opposing a Personality you control. Remove one of his abilities, if possible. Draw a card. If you removed an ability, you may take an additional Open or Battle action to play a legal card from your hand.
  Reinforce The Gates:
  Reaction: After a player announces a Battle or Open action during a battle before the Defender’s first normal opportunity to act or pass: Negate the action’s effects.
  A: Yes, because he still has not had a normal opportunity to take an action or pass. Chris Fuchs, "Reinforce The Gates + Resumed Hostilities", 21 May 2007