A Soul of Thunder

Legend of the Five Rings card from Lotus Edition, Time of the Void, Training Grounds 2

Card Type

Event

Keywords

Unique, Thunder

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, target your Personality. When your next turn begins, if you control him, gain 4 Honor. Until the game ends, other players have the ability, "Repeatable Limited: Target your performing unbowed Personality. He challenges the target of the Event that granted this ability. Destroy the loser."

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Clan Wars (Imperial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• The current player may gain the seven honor before checking for an Honor Victory since both happen at the start of the turn. [DW, l5rinfo, 9/19/97] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 56

Rules Q&A

• Q: This isn't a new ruling from AEG there was a card called A soul of thunder it works the same way it has always been that way.
  This shows my point. As I've only been on the list since September this year, I would never have seen the actual response Jeff (or whoever) gave for A Soul of Thunder, and I hope no one would suggest searching the entire archive every time I have a question to check for precedence...
  A: No one has to search the entire archive for precedents other than myself and my fellow Rules Team members. (And even we don't "have" to. It's just a very, very good idea.) And search for precedents is exactly what I did, which is one of the two big reasons I made the ruling I made. (The other reason is the same reason the original ruling was made: it's a timing conflict, so the active player chooses.) Jeff Alexander, "post for 5 December 2002", 6 Dec 2002