The Mantis's Strength

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Target your performing unbowed Mantis Clan Personality. Ranged Attack with strength equal to their Chi, and +2 strength if they are a Magistrate.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "The Mantis’s Strength 0G 3FV Battle: Target one of your unbowed Mantis Clan Personalities: Ranged Attack with strength equal to his Chi, and +2 strength if he is a Magistrate." [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 162

Rules Q&A

• Q: Gunso Kisho: Can I use this reaction with The Mantis's Strength?
  A: The Mantis's Strength is never in an army. No.
  "From" is different than performing and is defined here: http://rules.l5r.com/Glossary_F#From Zen Faulkes, "Gunso Kisho question", 10 Sep 2008
• Q: No Hiding Place Reaction: Before you target a Ranged Attack from one of your attacking cards: The Ranged Attack has -1 strength and may target a card even if it is in the Defender's home.
  The Mantis's Strength Battle: Target one of your unbowed Mantis Clan Personalities: Ranged Attack with strength equal to his Chi, and +2 strength if he is a Magistrate.
  Can I use No Hiding Place with The Mantis's Strength? Seems to me that the ranged Attack is produced by the performing personality but I'd like to have it confirmed.
  A: From: "The source is the card that the effect, action or targeting is printed on, or the rulebook if it is printed there. ... Targeting and destruction by Ranged Attacks come from the card that created the Ranged Attack, not the rulebook."
  The Ranged attack is "from" the Action card The Mantis' Strength, not the performing Personality. Alex Jones, "No Hiding Place and The Mantis's Strength", 16 Jun 2008
• Q: and proceeds to take first battle action. Player A plays The Mantis's Strength to shoot the opponents personality ZZ. Player A reacts and attaches Pincers and Tail. Then Player A gains the extra action off the box.
  A: No. The action that attached Pincers and Tail was not a Battle action; it was a Reaction.
  When something says, "After an action does this effect," you look only at the printed effect of that action for that effect. You don't get to trawl through all the secondary and tertiary and quaternary effects made possible by Reactions and triggered traits. Zen Faulkes, "Eastern Hub Port and timing", 10 Nov 2007