Storehouses

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Scorpion Clan Coup 1

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

w: Destroy any number of Storage tokens on this Holding to produce an amount of Gold equal to the number of tokens destroyed.
Repeatable Reaction: After paying a Gold Cost, if you produced a greater amount of Gold than what you paid, put a Storage token on this card; you may not spend the additional Gold on any other costs.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• The amount "necessary to bring a card into play" depends on how you're playing it. E.g., you only count the 2G discount for an aligned Personality if you're not gaining honor. [DW, 29 January 1998] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 86
• Accumulated Rulings Accumulated Rulings, April 22, 1998, p. 32
• Any card with no printed gold cost is considered to have a gold cost of 0. [general rule on unprinted numbers, and DW, l5rinfo, 1/13/98] Accumulated Rulings, April 22, 1998, p. 32

Rules Q&A

• Q: A question about paying costs. Can I voluntarily pay more gold than necessary to bring into play a card. For example, if I have 2 Quartermasters (produce 2 gold each) and 3 Gifts and Favors (produces 2 gold each), can I bow all of them to pay for a personality with a cost of 8, and then bow my Storehouses to put a counter on it?
  Storehouses (holding)
  Reaction: Bow when you produce more gold than is necessary to bring a card into play. Add one storage token to the storehouses. Reaction: Bow and destroy any number of storage tokens when you are bringing a card into play to produce gold equal to the number of storage tokens destroyed.
  Second question: Can I bow a holding without having something to pay?
  If no, can I pay for something than normally does not have a cost, but could have a cost, like an innate ability?
  A: Well, technically you aren't "paying more," but you can produce more than you need to pay the cost with. You pay the exact cost out of what you produced (any amount) and the rest is then lost (taxed away by the Emperor or some such).
  So yes, you could bow 5 holdings that each produce 2 gold for a total of 10 Gold, using 8 of it to pay the cost and having 2 lost, causing a trigger for Storehouse.
  You could even play a 0 Gold Cost Action Card and buy a holding to produce 2 Gold, then pay the 0 cost and have the 2 lost, causing a trigger for Storehouse.
  You can not produce gold without trying to meet a required Gold Cost for a play or effect of some sort, though (even a "0" cost will count). An ability with only non-Gold costs, for instance, would not be grounds to bow a holding and produce Gold. Martin Lund, "Paying costs of cards", 14 Mar 2005