Shield of Blood

Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho, Maho

Card Text

Limited: Bow your performing Monk or Shugenja, destroy your performing Personality, and target one of your other Personalities: The next time this game the target is destroyed, bow him instead, move him to his controller's home, and lose 5 Honor.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• The affected Personality returns to the home of the current controller, not the original caster (if different). [JA, email, 8 December 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 59

Rules Q&A

• Q: So I Show of Good Faith personality Bob from my opponent, and then cast Shield of Blood on Bob. At the end of the turn, Bob returns to my opponent. I then kill Bob in a later turn...
  A: "The affected Personality returns to the home of the current controller, not the original caster (if different). [JA, email, 8 December 2003]" (Accumulated Rulings, "Shield of Blood") Martin Lund, "Rules for 22 April 2004", 25 Apr 2004
• Q: If Chuda Masaru (a Bloodspeaker) is destroyed by Shield of Blood, can you put his card underneath the Pit of Blood? The question came up because Chuda Masaru was destroyed as a cost of playing SoB instead of in a battle or duel.
  A: Well, Pit of Blood seems to say: "Maho Reaction: When a Bloodspeaker Personality you control dies, put that Personality under Pit of Blood instead of into your discard pile."
  And Shield of Blood says: "Maho Kiho Limited: Bow one of your Shugenja or Monks and destroy one of your Personalities ..."
  Looks like he can go in the Pit to me. He's being destroyed / dying, and he's a Bloodspeaker. That's all Pit of Blood cares about. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 April 2004", 8 Apr 2004
• Q: "I say again: There is no way the Rules Junta is going to let anyone get around Wedge's destruction of the unit!"
  Sure Zen? what about Shield of Blood?
  A: True, that's close. An effect in play before you play Wedge will work. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 15 December 2003, Part 2", 16 Dec 2003
• Q: I Show of Good Faith my opponents guy. I then play [Shield of Blood] and kill one of my own personalities and target the Shown personality. Next turn after giving the Personality back to my opponent, I kill him in some way. What happens to him?
  A: You control him (card text). Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 7 December 2003", 7 Dec 2003