The Price of Power
Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Diamond, Tomorrow
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, this card enters play in your home.
Limited: Discard this card from your home to target your Personality and another player's Personality whose unit has a total Gold cost equal to or lower than your target's. Destroy both units. - Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Promotional–Diamond
- Rarity
- Promo
- Flavor Text
- "The Emperor will trust whom we tell him to trust." - Doji Akiko
- Artist
- Thomas Denmark
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Tomorrow
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "Why could it not have been another?" Kurako asked. "Why did he have to go alone?"
- Artist
- Thomas Denmark
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Martyr reads, in the Oracle:
Reaction: After one of your Personalities is destroyed by battle resolution or by a card's effect and if the target is still in play, target a Personality in the army that opposed yours during that Resolution Segment, the card that performed the action that destroyed yours, or the card that created the effect that destroyed him: The target's controller loses 5 Honor.
What a tricky one to phrase... so if I tie a battle I can't play Martyr from my dying dudes right?
And if I use The Price of Power to kill one of my guys + one of my opponent's guys he can't use Martyr either (since the event discards itself as a cost, before the effects are applied, and then Martyr fails to meet "if the target is still in play")?
A: Both of your assertions are correct. Brook Cunningham, "Fun with Martyr", 30 Sep 2013