Search For Advantage

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Reign of Blood

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Limited: Bow your performing Personality and target a dishonorable Personality: Rehonor him. Shuffle him and all his attached cards into their owners' decks.

Focus Value

3

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I play "Search for Advantage" on an Experienced personality who was overlayed, what happens to the inexperienced personality underneath?
  A: "When you have an overlaid card, none of the cards in the stack except for the top one counts as being 'in play' or affect play in any way, with the one exception: if an overlaid card is destroyed in the resolution of a battle, the opposing player gains honor for every card in the stack. If an overlaid card leaves play, remove all cards but the top one from the game. Keep them handy for reference, though since the top card still has the bottom cards' abilities." (Diamond Edition Rulebook, page 67, "Experienced Traits")
  So only shuffle the top-most card in the stack back. Remove the others from the game.
  Good thing to keep in mind playing Morning Glory Castle too. The less-experienced versions of personalities in such a stack get removed from the game when an overlaid Personality gets destroyed. They don't go to the Discard Pile or become Honorable Dead to use with MGC's ability. Martin Lund, "Rules for 14 April 2004", 15 Apr 2004
• Q: I have Achirin in play and use his ability to remove a unit from the game. Later, he is shuffled into my deck with Search For Advantage or Paper Lantern Festival by ex. Later, I bring him into play again. Can I use his ability again regarding to the once per game use of this ability and the lost of a card's memory when it became facedown and out of play?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Effects#Tracking_rule: "(A)ll 'memory; of the status of individual cards ends when the card enters a deck, a hand, or another area where it’s both face-down and out of play. This includes dishonorable status, ongoing effects, and whether or not an ability has been used." (Emphasis added.) Zen Faulkes, "Achirin exp and card's memory", 14 Aug 2007
• Q: Rullings seem to be that Broken Sword of the Lion successfully dishonours all your personalities, even those face down in decks in spite of the rullings that all face down out of play cards llose all card memory.
  What happens if I play Broken Sword of the Lion, and then one of my personalities get's rehonoured before being shuffled back into my dynasty deck?
  Reshuffling effects include: Misdirection, Search For Advantage, Tormented Plains.
  A: The ruling that effects that work on things you "own" affect everything, including cards in decks, is changing slightly as of now.
  One time effects with no duration (e.g., Broken Sword of the Lion) occur, but are immediately negated on face-down, out of play cards. (Yes, this is a reversal, before anyone asks.) Effects to cards you "own" that are applied continuously (e.g., Shiro no Soshi, Experienced Yoritomo Katoa) will effect face-down, out of play cards as usual; no change there. Zen Faulkes, "Broken Sword of the Lion + personalities returning to decks", 25 Nov 2005