Seeking the Truth

Legend of the Five Rings card from Forgotten Legacy, Three Dynasties

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Recon

Card Text

Reaction: After engaging, choose your performing unbowed Scout at the current battlefield: You have Reconnaissance there. Put a non-Unique Battle Strategy in your discard pile into your hand. After this battle ends, if you did not destroy the battlefield's province or an army, discard a card at random.

Focus Value

2

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi,
  I need a clarification about situation. I have in my army Master scouts and Daidoij Ebizo. The both cards have a trait After the resolution of your Recon action: Give Ebizo +1F/Master scouts +1F. I have Seeking the Truth card which is Recon and have Reaction: After engaging, choose your performing unbowed Scout at the current battlefield: You have Reconnaissance there. Put a non-Unique Battle Strategy in your discard pile into your hand. After this battle ends, if you did not destroy the battlefield's province or an army, discard a card at random. In my discard pile and other Seeking the Truth card in my hand. The battle starts and I use the recon Seeking the Truth ability which I target my other Seeking the Truth card in my discard pile. Can I now play the Seeking the Truth I have taken from My discard pile? If I can I will take my used Seeking the Truth card and, so on, and so on. In this way I can meke my Ebizo and Master scouts for ex. 100F bonus and then take any other strategy card in my discard pile? I just need clarifikation becos I don't know if Seeking th truth is a battle strategy?
  Other Questions are: Does the Conquest Reaction: After a battle resolution ends, choose your performing attacking Conqueror Personality at that battlefield: Straighten his unit. It will not bow from the battle’s resolution. Does it can be made once per turn or once per battle? I think that it can be used once per turn becouse it is a reaction action but i am confused by the trait "After a battle resolution ends". And what if I am useeing the The Plain of Glass stronghold which seys "You may use the rulebook Conquest ability twice per turn during the same battle." can I use it twice per turn but in difrent battles or only twice in one battle?
  Another one: Does the dishonor victory conditions which are: A player can lose by Dishonor, representing his or her faction being expelled from Rokugani society for offenses against honor. If a player’s Family Honor ever becomes –20 or below, the player loses the game at the beginning of his or her next End Phase, even if he or she returns to -19 or higher Family Honor. When my enemy will lose honor to -20 in my turn does he/she lose the game in his/her turn end phase or in his next turn end phase? When my enemy lose honor to -20 in his/her turn does he/she lose in his/her end phase or in his/her next turn end phase?
  And the last one: Den of Iniquity when I used it ability on personality with 0 personal honor does it controler lose 0 honor?:)
  thenks for reply Tom
  A: Seeking the Truth is not a Battle Strategy, so it may not be retrieved from the discard pile by Seeking the Truth.
  The Conquest ability can, like all other abilities unless otherwise stated, be used once per turn. The clause "After a battle resolution ends" tells you when you may use the ability; it has nothing to do with how often you may use the ability.
  The Plain of Glass's trait allows you to use the Conquest ability twice per turn, but both uses must react to the end of the same battle's resolution.
  At the beginning of your End Phase, if your Family Honour has ever been -20 or below, you lose the game.
  Targeting a Personality with base Personal Honour of 0 will cause his controller to lose 0 honour. Alex Jones, "Seeking the Truth mega pump", 31 May 2012
• Q: Seeking the Truth reads: Recon Text Reaction: After engaging, choose your performing unbowed Scout at the current battlefield: You have Reconnaissance there. Put a non-Unique Battle Strategy in your discard pile into your hand. After this battle ends, if you did not destroy the battlefield's province or an army, discard a card at random.
  emphasis on underlined text. how do i define a Battle Strategy? i don't think reactions [that can only be timed during battle segment] count on this one.
  just needed a clarification. thanks!
  A: A Battle Strategy is a Strategy with the "Battle" designator before one of its abilities. Brook Cunningham, "Seeking the Truth clarification", 13 Mar 2012
• Q: When do i actualy use, Seeking the Truth? or Koshin keep? is it after attackers and defenders are assigned? or is it when i pick which battlefield to begin.
  A: Reactions "Before engaging" or "after engaging" are taken (immediately) before or after a battle begins.
  Glossary, Engage: Refers to the time point when a Combat Segment begins. This is the same point of time that the battle begins.
  Battles, B Combat Segment: Engaging is the time point at which the battle, and the Combat Segment, both begin. Alex Jones, "Engaging", 27 Jan 2012
• Q: Ok, im running scouts alot, and alot of the older cards say, "unless the current battlefield's province was targeted by a Recon action this turn. So my question is if i have reconnaissance does that fullfill the requirement stated above?
  Example, i attack my opponents province, i react with, "Seeking the Truth" it never actualy targets the province, but the personality instead, it also says i now have Reconnaissance. So after that i play "Hunting the Daughter" does my scout have to bow?
  A: Having Reconnaissance is equivalent to having targeted the Province with a Recon action.
  See Glossary, Reconnaissance. Alex Jones, "Recon vs Reconnaissance", 3 Nov 2011
• Q: Seeking the Truth Recon Reaction: After engaging, choose your performing unbowed Scout at the current battlefield: You have Reconnaissance there. Put a non-Unique Battle Strategy in your discard pile into your hand. After this battle ends, if you did not destroy the battlefield's province or an army, discard a card at random.
  Is my opponent obligated to show me the card he is retrieving? If so, why? Do I need to call a judge to see if my opponent chose a non-Unique Battle strategy?
  Can I use this ruling as a basis to this question?
  A: Cards in the discard pile are always revealed to all players. Your opponent must show you the card he puts into his hand. Jon Palmer, "Seeking the Truth Retrieval", 10 Oct 2011
• Q: Does (Seeking the Truth) target a province?
  A: No. Zen Faulkes, "Reconnaissance", 24 Sep 2011