Rewards of Experience

Legend of the Five Rings card from Words and Deeds, Twenty Festivals

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai Personality. Bow a target enemy unit with lower total Force than your Samurai's Force.While your Samurai remains unbowed and at the current battlefield, negate the straightening of any cards in the enemy unit.

Focus Value

2

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Race for the Throne (Samurai), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Deck

Fate

Story

2007 European Championship Koku Auction - Jordi Pereira

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Regarding http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=114405
  The ruling on A Champion's Strike isn't explicitly mentioned in this answer, so just to be clear, is this to say that the addition of targeting paradoxes to the CR reverses the original ruling?
  The original poster had asked:
  The ruling was that, no, you can't. Has this changed?
  If so, great! If not, my original question stands as to what distinguishes Rewards of Experience from A Champion's Strike in terms of Hidden Dagger/targeting restrictions.
  A: My ruling on Rewards of Experience was incorrect, and the ruling on A Champion's Strike was correct. Inconsistency resolved. Jon Palmer, "RE: Hidden Dagger Follow-up", 15 Jul 2015
• Q: Could you explain the distinction between the rulings made regarding Hidden Dagger as it interacts with Rewards of Experience http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=114402 and A Champion's Strike http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=109757 ?
  Why is it that in the case of Rewards of Experience it "works" and in the case of A Champion's Strike it does not?
  A: The targeting paradoxes section of the CR didn't exist at the time (so really, we had no way to guarantee that a card like No Hiding Place would ever work). Your targeting constraint at this point is that the force of the unit targeted by Rewards of Experience has to be less than yours; therefore, it's only a legal target when you use the Hidden Dagger. Jon Palmer, "Hidden Dagger Follow-Up", 6 Jul 2015
• Q: Hi,
  If i have a Samurai personality in the battle, with a Hidden Dagger. Can i use a Rewards of Experience against a unit with higher force, and can i use the Hidden Dagger"s interrupt, that give -2 force before action resolves?
  Rewards of Experience: http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=6308,#hashid=3b55f8ce1f8bb2e3153346af9f1cf2a1,#cardcount=0
  Hidden Dagger: http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=11639,#hashid=d4cf90f38017302bb2370f76ab6709d0,#cardcount=0
  Thanks a lot!
  A: Yes, you may.
  Normally you'd be prevented from selecting the unit you want to select. However, the Targeting Paradoxes section of the CR says that as long as you have an effect that will make it legal, it's okay to take the action; you're then compelled to use the Hidden Dagger's Interrupt (or another similar effect) to make the targeting legal. Jon Palmer, "Rewards of Experience and Hidden Dagger", 6 Jul 2015
• Q: Rewards of Experience Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai Personality. Bow a target enemy unit with lower total Force than your Samurai's Force.While your Samurai remains unbowed and at the current battlefield, negate the straightening of any cards in the enemy unit.
  If the Player A's Personality targeted by Rewards of Experience to bow Player B's Personality gets bowed at any point and subsequently straightens, will Player B then be able to straighten his Personality, following Player A's straightening action?
  A: Player B's Personality will be able to straighten.
  See Remain: A duration that lasts while something “remains” in a given state starts only if the thing is in that state at the time the duration begin, and ends whenever the thing is no longer in that state. Alex Jones, "Rewards of Experience", 11 May 2015