Awed Witness
Legend of the Five Rings card from Emperor Edition, The Dead of Winter, Twenty Festivals
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Iaijutsu Battle: Your target unbowed Personality challenges a target enemy Personality. Bow the loser. The winning player may create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai Personality with his Clan Alignment.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Emperor Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "His skill… amazing!"
- Artist
- Storn A. Cook
- Card Number
- 272
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
The Dead of Winter
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Storn A. Cook
- Card Number
- 111
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- As the Kakita sheathed her blades, the ronin approached and fell to her knees. "Teach me!" she begged. "Only teach me and I will serve you forever!"
- Artist
- Storn A. Cook
- Card Number
- 269
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: In response to this thread: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=101268
Your response makes it seem as though there are only two options: Use the additional action opportunity to play an action, or use the additional action opportunity to pass. But doesn't the wording "you MAY take an additional option" imply that I have the option as to whether the additional action ever happens? Any other "may do X" effect seems to work this way, either you do X or you decline doing X. For Awed Witness you either do create a 2/2 personality or you decline creating a 2/2 personality. For additional action cards you either do take an additional action or you decline taking an additional action. The difference in semantics between "passing" and "not taking the additional action" is relevant for The Killing Grounds.
A: If the ability states "You may take an additional action to ...", then during the resolution of the action you must decide whether or not you wish to gain the additional action. If the ability states, "Take an additional action to ...", you always gain an additional action.
In either case, the additional action happens after the original action has finished resolving (together with effects, triggered traits and Reactions triggered by this), and you still get the choice of taking an action or passing. If you pass, this will trigger The Killing Grounds; if the original action said "You may take" and you choose during its resolution not to gain the additional action, you do not get the opportunity here to take an action or pass and hence cannot trigger The Killing Grounds. Alex Jones, "Additional Actions", 15 Jan 2013 - Q: In reference to: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=92259
Maybe I am misunderstanding how duels are created by actions. Does a duel action (i.e. Awed Witness) go through all of the action steps, then after step E. Action Ends, the duel is created or does the duel take place at some point during step D?
A: There is no rule that duels are delayed effects. They are just regular (albeit slightly lengthy) effects that occur in step D. There is no particular difference between that and something like "Bow it." Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011 - Q: Can one react to Awed Witness with Lying in Ambush?
A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011 - Q: Awed Witness create a delayed effect.
A: What gives you that idea? The card does not say anything about any effects occurring at a future time, which is the definition of a delayed effect (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Delayed_effects). Zen Faulkes, "Awed Witness and Lying in Ambush", 7 Jul 2011