Return For Training

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Diamond Edition, The War of Spirits, Training Grounds 2, Hidden City, Wrath of the Emperor, Path of Hope

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Battle: Target the Human Personality with the lowest Personal Honor, or who is tied for lowest, among all Human Personalities there: Move him home.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I've got a bowed personality in play with 1 PH, my opponent ambushes him with a 2PH (human) guy...Can I play Return for Training?
  A: Assuming your own Personality is also Human, no, since there are no legal targets for it. Jeff Alexander, "post for 20 February 2002", 21 Feb 2002
• Q: Return for Training question
  What happens if. I have 2 personalities in the battle that are both human and have 1ph and are bowed. My opponent has 2 personalities, both human with 3ph and I use Return for Training. which card is sent home?
  A: You cannot play Return for Training in this situation. You have no legal target for it. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 17 February 2001", 19 Feb 2001
• Q: The point is that Return for Training is worded as two different effects, the same way that Whispers of Twilight is worded as two separate effects.
  A: I disagree.
  Whispers of Twilight has two effects: "target player bows X of his Personalities" or "target player bows all of his Personalities".
  Return for Training has only one effect: "send home a Personality without bowing". Sometimes you have no choice who it is, and sometimes you do. That makes it a targeted action under the "ever targeted = always targeted" rule. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 14 February 2001", 18 Feb 2001
• Q: Okay, another good look at O- Ushi Sensei has revealed another question.
  O- Ushi sensei "responds" to card actions which target my opponent's cards.
  Return for Training breaks down into 2 clauses: 1 which does not target (the lowest personal honor human personality is sent home) and one which does (if there is a tie, you choose). When I play Return for Training when my opponent has the lowest personal honor personality, and there is only one, then he can not "activate" O- Ushi Sensei right, because his card is not being targeted?
  A: False. If an action is ever targeted, it always is. Return for Training is a targeted action even if there's only one Personality it can be legally played on. It's the exact same situation as Block Supply Lines being played on a solitary attacker. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 8 February 2001", 14 Feb 2001
• Q: Will Return for Training always have a legal target? At what point during the process does having an illegal target negate the effects of the card?
  A: When it resolves. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 8 February 2001", 14 Feb 2001
• Q: I had a question about (surprise) O- Ushi Sensei. If my opponent is using O- Ushi Sensei and I play Return for Training, what is the procedure for picking legal targets? If I picked a target which is made illegal because my opponent checks for force instead, does Return for Training bounce into my hand?
  Anyways, by the time that you've picked a target, it's too late for your opponent to change that target by making RfT reference force instead of PH. He can't make you go back, and once you've picked a target, the PH part of RfT is irrelevant, so he still goes home.
  A: I'm going to overturn Vaughn here. The rulebook clearly states that if a Reaction makes one or more targets of an action illegal, that that action does not affect those invalid targets. This is a REVERSAL. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 5 February 2000", 8 Feb 2001
• Q: I had a question about (surprise) O- Ushi Sensei. If my opponent is using O- Ushi Sensei and I play Return for Training, what is the procedure for picking legal targets? If I picked a target which is made illegal because my opponent checks for force instead, does Return for Training bounce into my hand?
  A: Jeez. Given the last few days, it *is* a surprise that this question is about O-Ushi Sensei. It should be about Gaheris! Get it right, man!
  Anyways, by the time that you've picked a target, it's too late for your opponent to change that target by making RfT reference force instead of PH. He can't make you go back, and once you've picked a target, the PH part of RfT is irrelevant, so he still goes home. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for February 6th", 6 Feb 2001
• Q: Just so I have this straight...
  O-Ushi Sensei works against Scaring the Masses and Return for Training, correct?
  A: Absolutely. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for January 10th", 10 Jan 2001