Seeking the Path
Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, The Heaven's Will
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Spell
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- As a Focus Effect: You may increase the Focus Value of one of your focused cards that is a Ring by 1.
Open: Destroy this card and target a Ring in your discard pile: Put it into your hand. - Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Celestial Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- The path to enlightenment cannot be cleared.
- Artist
- Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
- Card Number
- 372
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
The Heaven's Will
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "Rosuko and Sekawa, both gone," Tsuken whispered. "What can we do? What must we do?"
- Artist
- Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
- Card Number
- 160
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rulings
- Erratum: Reads, "Seeking the Path 0G 4FV Focus Effect: You may increase the Focus Value of one of your focused cards that is a Ring by 1. Open: Destroy this card: Put a target Ring in your discard pile into your hand." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 152
Rules Q&A
- Q: If I put a ring from my discard pile into my hand (via Seeking the Path or Temple of the Seekers) during the same turn that I used its ability, can I use its ability again? That is, does it "forget" the fact that it was used earlier during the turn?
I initially thought that the ring would "remember" because I was under the impression that face-up cards that go back to hand remain face-up, but the following ruling on the retrieval of a copy of Brothers-in-arms seem to contradict that: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=74793&p=979465&hilit=deadly+orders#p979494
Relevant texts:
Seeking the Path Focus Effect: You may increase the Focus Value of one of your focused cards that is a Ring by 1. Open: Destroy this Spell: Put a target Ring in your discard pile into your hand.
Temple of the Seekers Temple • Legacy • Singular Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Target a Ring you control and destroy this card: Search your deck and discard pile for a Ring. Show it. Put it in your hand.
A: Cards in your hand are now considered face down, regardless of what state they were in before they got into your hand.
If you use the Ring of Void by discarding it, put it into your hand via Temple to Seekers, you may use its ability again. Dan Jacobson, "Rings, Seeking the Path, Temple of the Seekers", 3 May 2009