The Celestial Pattern
Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Anvil of Despair, Promotional–CWF
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Event
- Keywords
- Unique
- Card Text
- After you reveal cards in your Provinces at the start of your turn, if this Event is face-up in one of them, before the next Event this game resolves, negate its effects.
- Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold), Hidden Emperor (Jade)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Gold Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "It is said that from the Flowing Tower of the Oracle of Air, humans look like colorful ants and the Fortunes themselves resemble brightly painted kites. Ants, kites, Oracles - all weaving their place in the Pattern." - Doji Nagori
- Artist
- Eric Ren
- Card Number
- 438
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Anvil of Despair
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- Nothing in life is random, it is all part of the celestial pattern. Become one with the elements and you will learn their sublime scheme.
- Artist
- Heather Bruton
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Promotional–CWF
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- After the Day of Thunder, three bodies were burned on pyres. Hoturi, Togashi, Tadaka - heroes of an age that will never be forgotten. May their sacrifices continue to inspire us in the Age of Man. - X.X
- Artist
- Heather Bruton
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Rulings
- The negated event can be saved with Avoid Fate. [Reversal, VRD, 14 August 2001] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 69
- The discarded event cannot be saved with Avoid Fate. [DW, l5rinfo, 12/25/96] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 20
- Avoid Fate is played immediately before an Event resolves [card text], but the discarded Event doesn't resolve. Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 20
Rules Q&A
- Q: ---- The Celestial Pattern: The next event card is negated and is discarded without effect. The negated event is still considered to have occurred. ----
Avoid Fate is played "before an Event begins to resolve." Does Celestial Pattern trump Avoid Fate?
A: Yes. Celestial Pattern stops Avoid Fate's trigger from occuring. Jeff Alexander, "post for 10 Oct 2002", 11 Oct 2002 - Q: The Celestial Pattern - but the Gold Edition version of TCP specifies that the next Event DOES resolve (with its effects negated).
Can't say anything until I actually *SEE* Gold here.. mutter mutter..
But the Rules Archive has not changed the ruling yet... And the MRP is supposed to have kicked in already..
A: Well, the Rules Junta isn't omniscient. I'm noticing Gold changes at just about the same rate as everyone else. There's so many things that just got changed by incidental rewordings, it's very hard to notice everything all at once. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for August 14th", 14 Aug 2001