Strengthening Protection

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Harbinger

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

5

Card Text

This card has -1 Gold Cost for each Artisan Personality you control.
Limited: You build stronger defenses. Permanently give each of your provinces +2 strength.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: One -- I think last -- followup on this:
  Just to confirm, am I correct that both Last Line of Defense and Strengthening Protection produce ongoing effects of this nature?
  A: Both specify durations, so are ongoing (http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Ongoing_effects). Zen Faulkes, "Last Line of Defense, Return to the Heavens, et al.", 21 May 2011
• Q: Does Kakita Reisei's permanent Province Strength boost reassert itself after the turn ends if Determined Force is played and the relevant Province is not destroyed? I'm unclear if this counts as negation of her bonus or simply the application of a new, temporary penalty.
  Edit: I suppose the same question arises for Strengthening Protection.
  Relevant card text:
  Reisei: Reaction: After Reisei enters play: Permanently give each of your provinces +1 strength.
  Strengthening Protection: Limited: You build stronger defenses. Permanently give each of your provinces +2 strength.
  Determined Force: Battle: Set this battlefield's province's strength equal to its base strength.
  A: It is a penalty (or bonus) that lasts until the end of the turn, for which the penalty's (or bonuses') amount is equal to the difference between the province's current strength and the strength printed on that player's Stronghold.
  See the Comprehensive Rules section on setting stats Dan Jacobson, "Determined Force vs. Kakita Reisei", 9 Mar 2010