The Desiccated
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test, Ivory Edition, Onyx Edition, Shattered Empire, Samurai Edition Banzai, Promotional–Ivory
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Follower
- Force
- 3
- Chi
- 0
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Keywords
- Nonhuman, Shadowlands, Undead
- Card Text
- You may Equip this Follower from your discard pile.
After you Equip this Follower, lose 3 Honor. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Shattered Empire, War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)
- MRP
- Is now Nonhuman.
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Truest Test
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- "Leave your pets behind, Mishime," Katsu said. "The Dark Lord has work for them in the Crab lands."
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Card Number
- 132
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Ivory Edition
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- The advance scout looked around, surveying the remains of the fallen foe. He never heard the bodies rising up behind him.
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Card Number
- 213
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Onyx Edition
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- The cruel eyes and gleaming fangs flashed in the fires of the burning village, only the first of many.
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Card Number
- 231
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Shattered Empire
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- The cruel eyes and gleaming fangs flashed in the fires of the burning village, only the first of many.
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Card Number
- 231
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Samurai Edition Banzai
- Rarity
- Starter
- Flavor Text
- "Leave your pets behind, Mishime," Katsu said. "The Dark Lord has work for them in the Crab lands."
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Promotional–Ivory
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- The advance scout looked around, surveying the remains of the fallen foe. He never heard the bodies rising up behind him.
- Artist
- Steve Ellis
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: In reference to my previous thread about Eastern Hub Port and Misdirection.
Let's use the same example. I attack one province with many Naval personalities. The defender controls a courtier at home. During the first battle, after engaging, I use the Naval ability, targeting my Yoritomo Brian at the current battlefield. I play Eastern Hub Port so I announce the "Equip" action that Brian can and must perform. Before choosing targets for the effects of this action, my opponent plays Misdirection.
If I understand correctly, my opponent may not target a card which face is not revealed to him therefore he can never target an attachment card in my hand. His targeting fails to happen, my targeting has been replaced by the "instead" word so it doesn't happen, no card is targeted so the resolution of this Equip action does nothing. Then I've still got three other questions.
1) Have I correctly understood this previous ruling ? If not, please explain which mistakes I made please.
2) If I have only one card in hand, the Good Faith Rule implies that it must be an attachment card. Can my opponent target that one card according to this knowledge or does the previous ruling also apply there ?
3) If I have one The Desiccated in my discard pile, can my opponent target it and if yes, must he target it or does it depend on the number of cards in my hand (or on something else) ? I mean: can my opponent use the previous ruling to say he can't target a card in my hand, he is not compeled to target The Desiccated, so he lets his targeting fail so that the Equip action does nothing.
Thanks for your useful help.
A: 1) Correct.
2) I would say that if you only have one card in your hand, and no other targets to attach (such as The Dessicated,) then he must target the only card in your hand. (This specific answer is tentative and may change if the rest of the rules team disagrees with my logic.)
3) If he knows of a legal target, such as The Dessicated, he must target it. Chris Fuchs, "Eastern Hub Port and Misdirection and The Desiccated", 26 Sep 2007 - Q: 'This card can be attached from your discard pile instead of from your hand.'
Can this card be attached normally from my hand as well, or only from the discard pile?
A: Normally from hand as well. Chris Fuchs, "The Desiccated", 24 May 2007