Tactical Trap

Legend of the Five Rings card from Embers of War

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Tactical

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Tactician at any location and target an enemy Personality: Move him home. Bow him if he moved.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi,
  This action has TACTICAL keyword but the action is Battle.
  What's the difference between this and "Tactical Battle", like on Cotrol the Board?
  I don't think rules are quite clear on this.
  A: There is no mechanical difference between Tactical Trap's Battle ability and Control the Board's Tactical Battle ability; they are both Tactical Battle abilities.
  The difference in the formatting is because Control the Board has another Battle ability on it that is NOT Tactical.
  For cards under the Emperor Edition rules, any Keywords in the Keyword block of a card "bleed down" to the abilities in the text box. Keywords on specific abilities however, do not "bleed" on to other abilities on the card. Ben Higgins, "Tactical Trap", 16 Oct 2013
• Q: So a question came up today about tacticians.
  I understand that tacticians may only perform one tactical action a turn. So we had this situation today:
  Player A uses his tactician with 2 personal honor to play Tactical Trap targetting a paragon with 4 personal honor. Player B uses Iron Will to negate the action, give Player A an additional action, and refund the costs.
  Can Player A use his tactician to perform another Tactical action (or the rulebook tactical) or has he used up his use of tactician for that turn?
  A: The latter.
  Even though the effects were negated and the costs were ignored, the Tactical action was still performed by the Tactician, so he cannot perform another that turn per the rules. Brook Cunningham, "Tactician and negating the action", 10 Jun 2012