Seek the Stain

Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Void

Card Text

You may attach this card from your discard pile to your Void Shugenja.
Open: Bow this card and target another player's Personality: You find out his dark secret. Give him Kolat, Ninja, or Shadowlands.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I need a clarification regarding "Shadowlands card" wording in a Legacy format. More precisely, does a Shadowlands trait define a card as "Shadowlands card"? Let's take the following example:
  Say I have a shugenja with Seek the Stain spell attached. During the next two turns, I hand out Shadowlands trait to two of my opponent's personalities. On the third turn, Iris Festival is revealed in one of my provinces.
  Question: Will the two personalities with the Shadowlands trait, gained through Seek the Stain, be destroyed?
  Seek the Stain (Spell) Open: Bow this card and target another player's Personality: You find out his dark secret. Give him Kolat, Ninja, or Shadowlands.
  Iris Festival (Event) Destroy all Shadowlands cards.
  A: There is no difference between "a Shadowlands card" and "a card with the Shadowlands keyword". These terms are equivalent and interchangeable.
  That said, effects have a default duration of "until the turn ends". Seek the stain does NOT give out Shadowlands "permanently" (compare to, say, Soul's Sacrifice), so the Iris Festival in your example would not destroy those Personalities, as they would have lost the keyword by the time it resovled. Brook Cunningham, "Legacy: Shadowlands Card clarification", 3 Oct 2013
• Q: Hi there,
  This question came up today in play. Imagine I play Mastering the Elements and copy Seek the Stain, I want to know if my original Reaction from Mastering the Elements is erased or not.
  Basically I want to know if it's possible if I destroy the Mastering the Elements to re-attach it from the discard pile (per Seek the Stain trait) and effectively copy another spell when it entered play.
  Thanks!
  Javier
  A: The keywords, traits and abilities copied by Mastering the Elements' Reaction are not lost when Mastering the Elements leaves play, nor when its Reaction is next used. They stay copied until Mastering the Elements is face down and out of play. Alex Jones, "Mastering the Elements - Multiple Copies", 22 Oct 2011