Souls of the Betrayed
Legend of the Five Rings card from Honor Bound
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Limited: Until the game ends, before a player resolves an Event, that player must pay 2 Gold or the Event's effects are negated.
- Focus Value
- 4
- Legality
- Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Honor Bound
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "The souls of the betrayed shall find no rest. Enslaved, destroyed, and unnamed, they will walk the land of the living. On the edge of Jigoku, the Darkness moves." - from The Scrolls of Norikazu
- Artist
- April Lee
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rules Q&A
- Q: Then, if I play in Open format the card Souls of the Betrayed, what happens?
A) The Events have 2 Gold cost, due to Souls of the Betrayed effects.
B) The Events have 0 Gold cost. The first sentence of this card do nothing, because "a value that isn't specified ... such as ... the Gold cost of an Event ... consider that value to be 0. Effects that try to change a value that a card does not normally possess fail - the value is always 0."
The option B is the answer I am expecting, but it sounds strange.
Souls of the Betrayed Limited: Until the end of the game, all Events have a Gold cost of 2. If the cost of an Event is not paid, the Event is discarded without effect.
A: The answer is "A." Souls of the Betrayed does not say that it increases the card's Gold Cost by 2, or gives it a +2 Gold Bonus or any such thing. It specifies a value of 2 Gold Cost and Assigns it to the Event Cards. While Souls of the Betrayed is in effect, Events have a - Specified - Gold Cost, as per its text. Martin Lund, "Rules for 7 October 2004", 11 Oct 2004