Scrutiny's Sweet Sting

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Hidden City

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

6

Keywords

Political

Card Text

This card's action costs 4 less Gold if you are a Scorpion Clan player.
Battle/Open: Bow your performing Courtier Personality and target a Personality: Choose Samurai, Shugenja, or Courtier. Permanently remove that keyword from the target.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• If redirected, you can attempt to remove any trait allowed (even if the new target Personality has none of them). [ML, 27 May 2004] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 31

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I play Scrutiny's Sweet Sting on a shugenja to remove the "Shugenja" trait. SSS is redirected to Danjuro and nothing happens? I don't even get to remove the Samurai trait from him?
  A: No. You don't. You already made your bed when you declared you would use Scrutiny's Sweet Sting to remove the "shugenja" trait back in the "Declaration Step." You don't get a do-over now that the target has changed. Martin Lund, "Rules for 2 July 2004", 2 Jul 2004
• Q: Cut and Pasted from http://l5r.alderac.com/rulings/
  If an action gives you an option of which effect to use (e.g., Moto Latomu, Scrutiny's Sweet Sting), you must announce which you intend to use when you announce the action. [ML, 22 June 2004]
  Scrutiny's Sweet Sting If redirected, you can attempt to remove any trait allowed (even if the new target Personality has none of them). [ML, 27 May 2004]
  A: [MARTY] The newer ruling overrides the old one. The newer ruling came after some Rules Team discussions. Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 June 2004", 2 Jul 2004
• Q: i read few e-mails about how danjuro can redirect Scrutiny's Sweet Sting, when you try remove a shugenja trait from a shugenja, but sice danjuro are not a shugenja and you need anoyuce the effect before the reaction, Danjuro will be a illegal target, no??
  A: No. Scrutiny's Sweet Sting does not require a Personality with the trait to be removed. It targets "a Personality". Danjuro is a Personality. Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 June 2004", 2 Jul 2004
• Q: I may have missed the answer to this, but the ruling on Well Prepared + Danjuro has gotten a lot of attention, and I wanted to see if this is the same.
  If I play Scrutiny's Sweet Sting to remove the Shugenja trait from one of my opponent's personalities, what does Danjuro do about it?
  A: Hey redirects it to himself. The player of S.S.S. can remove the Shugenja, Courtier, or Samurai trait from Danjuro when the effect resolves. Martin Lund, "Rules for 24 May 2004", 27 May 2004