Sacred Gong
Legend of the Five Rings card from Broken Blades
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Item
- Force
- +0
- Chi
- +0
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Card Text
- Repeatable Battle, w: Give this battlefield's Province +3 or -3 strength until the battle ends.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Broken Blades
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "The Shiba have grown strong in our absence," observed Hochiu. "We must rebuild the Council, and soon."
- Artist
- Malcolm McClinton
- Card Number
- 54
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: I have heard somebody email Jeff about this so I want clarification from Jeff. Suppose I (the attacker) attack a province with four personalities and three have a sacred gong attached and the other is a 0 force kwanchai. Now for battle purposes the defender decides to play entrapping terrain. The attacker uses all three gongs to lower the province below zero. The attacker then pops the terrain. The attacker has the three personalities get sent home or destroyed. The defender has nobody left to defend.
IIs the province A. Not destroyed, because you need force greater than the province strength of zero to destroy it and the province was never below zero strength. of B. By some magical miracle the zero force of kwanchai is enough to pop the province.
A: A. No stats go below zero except Family Honor and Honor Requirements [GE p. 31], and an attacking army does not destroy the Province unless the total army Force is above the Province's Strengh. Zero is not greater than zero. Jeff Alexander, "post for 13 January 2003", 14 Jan 2003