Strike the Summit

Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Monk, bow one of your Rings, and target an enemy Personality: Move him home. Bow him if he moved. You may discard a card; if you did, search your deck for a Strike the Center, show it, and put it in your hand.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: This is probably an amazingly simple and/or boneheaded question on my part, but I can't find an answer to this despite remembering, for some reason, a ruling on this issue.
  The reactions on Strike the Summit and Strike the Center allow the acting player to fish a Strike the Center or Strike the Base, respectively. Tonight, however, someone played a Strike the Summit, fished a Strike the Center, and then tried to use that copy of Strike the Center as a reaction to his Strike the Summit. I thought there had been a ruling declaring that, in order for a reaction on a card to be played legally, the reacting card had to be in hand when the action it is reacting to was played. My opponent and another player both claimed that this was not the case, and cited instances of this happening at a Kotei they were involved in (Atlanta). Is my memory faulty, has the ruling changed, or were my fellow players trying to pull a fast one on me?
  A: A Reaction action card must be in hand at the time its trigger occurs.
  In the case of Strike the Centre, this is "After you resolve a Strike the Summit". There is no requirement that the Reaction action card is in your hand at any earlier point.
  See http://rules.l5r.com/Timing. Alex Jones, "Timing and the Strike Chain", 15 Mar 2008
• Q: If I cancel the movement of the Strike the Summit and the opponent uses the trait to pick the Strike at the Center, Is it considered a succesful action?
  A: Point: There is no "canceling" in L5R any more.
  Yes, it is successful if the player chooses to discard and search. Zen Faulkes, "Successfully Action and Strike the Summit", 4 Dec 2007
• Q: My first question for the day is refering to this question.
  You see, I believe I've asked in the past if Reaction chains (in this case, the Strike the Summit/Center/Base chain) would count towards bringing the Ring of Water into play. I was told that, no, the chain would not help me towards this goal. (It would help me with the Ring of Air, though.) I was told that I could only bring the Water Ring into play if I'd play all the different, "second-use" Battle actions on each Strike kiho, seperately, beforehand. (And then a fourth Battle Action, of course.)
  Has that changed? Because if so, it would be nice to know. If not, maybe adding this to the answer of the other user's question would help to avoid confusion.
  In any case, that was just something that roundhouse kicked me in the eye.
  A: For some weird reason, I overlooked that those cards were being used for Reactions, not Battle actions. Sorry. Zen Faulkes, "RE: Question about playing Rings", 23 Aug 2007