Root the Mountain

Legend of the Five Rings card from Hidden Emperor 2

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho, Terrain

Card Text

Negate units' movement to and from this battlefield.
Before this battle's resolution: Give +2F to each defending Personality and Follower at this battlefield.
Battle: If there are no Terrains at the current battlefield, bow your performing Monk or Shugenja: Put this card into play there.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Is both an Immediate and a Delayed Terrain. [JA, email, 18 April 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 59

Rules Q&A

• Q: For example, let's say I have only one shugenja in a battle with a group of samurai. The shugenja casts a Kiho that affects the battle, let's say Root the Mountain. Then the shugenja is killed. The samurai still get +2 in the Resolution Phase, right? Root the Mountain doesn't go away just because it would be theoretically illegal to play at that point. Why is this any different?
  A: Because the cost of playing the terrain (bowing a Shugenja or Monk) was met when you played the terrain. There are no preconditions to its resolution, and no effects that would prohibit it from existing. Gaheris very simply works differently. The only other card effect out there that compares to him is Deadly Ground (and Night Battle), and actions taken under Deadly Ground have to follow the same restrictions as actions taken under Gaheris. Immediately, directly, and unconditionally, they have to remove the action obstruction that's in their way. This action, for example:
  Battle: Target one of your personalities, who gains one force. If that personality is still in the battle at terrain resolution, destroy any terrain in play for this battle.
  Would *not* be legal under Deadly Ground, because you cannot possibly guarantee that the second part of the action, the part that would make it legal, will actually go off. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for February 6th", 6 Feb 2001