Short Season
Legend of the Five Rings card from Dark Allies, Twenty Festivals
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Event
- Card Text
- Each player may take only one Limited or Open action per turn (after this Event enters play).
Open: If you have not taken an action this phase, put this Event into play. Discard it after the current active player's next Action Phase begins. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Four Winds (Gold), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Dark Allies
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "It seems as if winter comes sooner every year." - Satoshi
- Artist
- Heather Bruton
- Card Number
- 43
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Twenty Festivals
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- The winter season was short and quite mild, beginning with the Empress's announcement and ending with a coronation.
- Artist
- Heather Bruton
- Card Number
- 5
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Previous ruling: Short Season and Hidden Machinations.
Here, Victory through deference doesn't give you a permission to take an additional action, it just stipulates "Take an additional action."
In that case, if Short Season has resolved, will VtD allow you to play it plus an additional action? --- Short Season Each player may take only one Limited or Open action per turn (after this Event enters play). Open: If you have not taken an action this phase, put this Event into play. Discard it after the current active player's next Action Phase begins.
Victory Through Deference As a Focus Effect, after you win this duel, remove one to three non-Ring cards in discard piles from the game. Invest : Draw a card. Battle/Open: Remove one to three non-Ring cards in discard piles from the game. You may target a Personality and remove one of his abilities or boldface keywords (this turn). Take an additional action.
A: Victory Through Deference gives you a window to play an additional action, overriding the normal back-and-forth action sequence. However, it does not specifically contradict Short Season's limit on the number of actions, so you may not take a second action after playing Victory Through Deference. Jon Palmer, "Victory through deference and Short Season", 1 May 2015 - Q: Does Hidden Machinations allow a player to play a second Limited or Open action while Short Season is active?
I think it does not, because of this point: a permission does not overcome restrictions or negations from card sources.
Am I right?
Short Season Each player may take only one Limited or Open action per turn (after this Event enters play).
Hidden Machinations Before the Action Phase ends, you may take an additional action.
A: It does not. Hidden Machinations' additional action will not override Short Season's limitation (but if you have not taken a normal Limited or Open action, you can take it during the action granted by Hidden Machinations). Jon Palmer, "Short Season vs. Hidden Machinations", 27 Mar 2015