Taxing the Scum

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Dead of Winter

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Political Open: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate or Courtier and target another player's dishonorable Personality. Increase all Honor Requirements on Personalities in and out of play by 10 (except - HR); players may pay 2 additional Gold when paying for Personalities with their Clan Alignment to ignore their Honor Requirements. Choose a player, who gains or loses 2 Honor.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: A dispute came up between me and a very knowledgeable player of my play group so i wanted to get a ruling.
  As I understand it, Only Actions Speak reacts to the announcement of an action, before targeting takes place, or effects with choices happen.
  So the following scenarios should work: [i have a magistrate, the opponent has a personality A, with 0 PH, and personality B with 1PH] 1) I announce Patrolling the roads. 2) My opponent reacts with Only Actions Speak. 3) I target personality B, setting his force to 1 an gaining no honor.
  [i have a magistrate, the opponent has a dishonorable personality] 1) I announce taxing the scum 2) My opponent reacts with Only Actions Speak. 3) I target his dishonorable personality 4) during the effect resolution, I choose to make the opponent lose 2 honor.
  Relevant Card Text: Only Actions Speak Reaction: After an action is announced: Negate all Honor gains until after the action's resolution. At that time if this negated any gains, negate all Honor gains until the end of this phase and draw a card.
  Patrolling the Roads Battle/Open: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate: Target a Personality with lower Personal Honor than your Magistrate's Chi. Reduce the Personality's Force to his own Personal Honor. If his Force is now 0, gain 2 Honor.
  Taxing the Scum Open: Choose your performing unbowed Magistrate or Courtier: Target another player's dishonorable Personality. Increase all Honor Requirements on Personalities in and out of play by 10 (except -HR). Choose a player, who gains or loses 2 Honor.
  A: These look correct. Zen Faulkes, "Only Actions speak timing questions", 18 Mar 2011