Rights of the Challenged
Legend of the Five Rings card from Fire & Shadow
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Reaction: After one of your Personalities is challenged: Your Personality has the first option to focus or strike, overriding other effects. The participants use Chi as their duel stat, overriding other effects; if the duel was to compare other stats, adjustments made to those stats during the duel apply to Chi instead.
- Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Fire & Shadow
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Mark Pennington
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: Which of the following cards target and who do they target if they do target:
Rights of the Challenged
A: Your Personality. Jeff Alexander, "post for 8 November 2001", 9 Nov 2001 - Q: Rights of the Challenged Reaction: When one of your Personalities is challenged to a duel, your Personality has the first option to focus or strike, regardless of other effects. Compare Chi versus Chi; adjustments made during the duel apply to Chi.
Does the Duelist trait count as an effect and does this card prevent a duellist who challenges someone with higher chi from focusing first?
A: Having the Duelist keyword does indeed lead to an effect that comes from the rulebook. So, yes, Rights of the Challenged would prevent a challenging Duelist from focusing first. Brook Cunningham, "Rights of the Challenged and Duelist trait", 10 Sep 2009