String of Victories

Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle/Open: Straighten all of your Rings. You may put a Ring in your Fate discard pile into your hand. You may take an additional action appropriate to this phase.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: So let's say I have done 2 actions from cards with different titles in a battle already and I then discard The Ring of Water (tRoW) to move someone into the opposed battle making that 3 actions. On my next action I play String of Victories to put tRoW back into my hand. Is that the fourth action so I can put tRoW into play? And can I then use the ability once again?
  I am pretty sure the answer is yes (I know it is on the second question), but my brain starts to hurt when I consider the tracking rule. The game "forgets" that tRoW has used it's ability but somehow the forgotten use of said ability counts as an action from cards with different titles? It's just weird to me.
  A: They're tracking different things.
  Ring of Water's trait checks abstract game state: "A battle action was taken by this player using an ability on a card called XXX." This doesn't care what happens to the card after the action was taken - it can be removed from the game, shuffled back in, have its title changed (theoretically!), lose the ability, etc.
  However, the game state of each card is also tracked, for maximum abilities uses per turn, etc: "This ability on this card has been used once this turn." When the card goes face down and out of play, this tracking stops - so when the card reappears, game state considers it to be a different card (and yes, we have considered having a different tracking rule for uniques, but decided that was even more complicated). Alex Jones, "Ring of Water & String of Victories and the Tracking rule", 2 Oct 2012
• Q: Here is my question.
  Are Rings strategy cards.
  Strategy cards are cards you play from your hand and then discard. A strategy usually has one or more abilities.
  Rings by the last sentence says. You can also discard them from your hand for a one-shot effect.
  For example. Can i play Ring of Earth, then Ring of Air, Void and then String of Victories. Pick up Void and play Void by its own text? All Rings played from hand. One-shot effects.
  Thanks
  Togashi O-Fu
  A: The Elemental Rings are not Strategy cards. They are Ring cards.
  In your example, you have only played one Strategy (String of Victories) towards putting Ring of the Void in to play by its own text. Ben Higgins, "Strategy and Rings", 20 May 2012
• Q: Can String of Victories be used without a ring in play?
  Battle/Open: Straighten all of your Rings. You may put a Ring in your Fate discard pile into your hand. You may take an additional action appropriate to this phase.
  A: Yes, as it neither explicitly requires nor targets a Ring in play. Jon Palmer, "String of Victories", 8 Dec 2011