Strength From Weakness
Legend of the Five Rings card from Wrath of the Emperor
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Kiho
- Card Text
- Battle: Choose your performing Monk or Shugenja, target your bowed Personality, and target an enemy bowed Personality: Straighten your bowed Personality. If your performer is not a Monk, straighten the enemy Personality.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Wrath of the Emperor
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- In the halls of lost Gisei Toshi, Aikune seeks the truth.
- Artist
- Stephanie Pui-Mun Law
- Card Number
- 133
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Here's a hypothetical situation between a bowed Mirumoto Gonkuro (Yay!!) and a bowed Tsuruchi Nobumoto (Boo!!). Gonkuro casts Strength From Weakness thanks to the Temple. Does Nobumoto straighten as well? I ask because I can think of 2 outcomes:
A: Nobumoto does not unbow. Gonkuro is a Monk for the entire time of Casting the Kiho. Casting goes on all the way through resolving all immediate effects of the Action, so this includes the time where you would have to unbow Nobumoto if Gonkuro was not a Monk.
"Casting" lasts until the last immediate effect concludes, and has done so since 1997 when Dave Williams ruled that Chi Bonuses for / while casting remained through the Duel generated by the Kiho "Facing Your Devils" - which remains on record in the Accumulated Rulings. Martin Lund, "Rules for 20 October 2004", 24 Oct 2004 - Q: When I straighten my Personality with Strength from Weakness, (d0es) the opposing (Personality) stays bowed?
A: Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Temple of Hoshi", 25 Mar 2005