Show of Restraint
Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Kiho
- Card Text
- Battle: Choose your performing Monk: Negate all current Force penalties on him from actions. If he has a Weapon, negate the next card effect that moves him home or bows him.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Before the Dawn
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "You are an amazing idiot. I should kill you, but your Empire needs even idiots right now." - Tetsuo
- Artist
- Troy Graham
- Card Number
- 135
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Show of Restraint: Battle: Choose your performing Monk: Negate all current Force penalties on him from actions. If he has a Weapon, negate the next card effect that moves him home or bows him.
For purposes of example, Sundering Strike: Battle: Target an enemy Personality: You may target one of his attachments and pay Gold equal to its Gold Cost minus four. If you did, destroy it. Move the Personality home
If I target my Monk with a Weapon with Show of Restraint and then he targets me with Sundering Strike, does Show of Restraint stop all effects of the card (ergo disallowing him to destroy my attachment), or does it only stop the Movement portion of the card effect?
Thanks!
A: Show of Restraint only stops the effects that move home or bow the Personality. All other effects of the action (such as Sundering Strike's item destruction) still take place. This differs from an action such as Effortless Counterattack, which has no limitation on which effects it negates and therefore would negate both the movement and bowing as well as the item destruction. Jon Palmer, "Show of Restraint, "card effect"", 19 Feb 2012 - Q: I play Show of Restraint on my monk, my opponent then plays Crippling Weather, then my monk performs something. Will he bow, or will it be negated?
A: Crippling Weather's bowing is a card effect. Your monk will not bow. Zen Faulkes, "Show of Restraint and Crippling Weather", 27 May 2011 - Q: Crippling Weather has already been played, and my monk performs Show of Restraint. Will he then bow, or will Show of Restraint negate it?
A: He will not bow, because the last delayed effect negating bowing will have already been activated before Crippling Weather's effect triggers. Zen Faulkes, "Show of Restraint and Crippling Weather", 27 May 2011