The Red Hunger

Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn

Card Type

Personality

Force

7

Chi

1

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

9

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Bashe, Nonhuman

Card Text

Battle: Target one or two attachments, or a Personality without attachments, with a total Force lower than The Red Hunger's Force: He swallows them whole. Destroy the targeted cards.

Legality

Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If the player who controls the Red Hunger attempts to target two attachments, can the player who controls those 2 attachments redirect the action on red hunger to a personality with no attachments (and lower force) using Ryoshun's Guidance?
  A: Changes in targeting must obey the legality of the original targeting. Since the retargeting effect will only change one of the two targets, and targeting an attachment and a Personality is not legal under the Red Hunger's ability, such a change is not allowed. Jon Palmer, "Red Hunger And Ryoshun Guidance", 9 Jul 2012
• Q: The Snow Has Teeth Reaction: After engaging: The current battlefield's province has a maximum strength equal to its base strength until the end of the battle. Negate the next effect that would move one of your Personalities from its battlefield. After the next time this battle a Terrain enters play, destroy it.
  Surprise Attack Battle: Choose one or more of your performing Nonhuman Personalities at the current battlefield and target one of the enemy leader's Personalities there or at home: Create a battlefield (not associated with any province). Move all the performers and targets there
  I think I know, but, I'm talking myself out of it and maybe I'm just overthinking this.
  My opponent attacks, I defend with The Red Hunger I play The Snow Has Teeth as a reaction to engaging My first action is Surprise Attack, performed by TRH
  Based on the negation from The Snow Has Teeth, I'm origianally assumed that TRH stays in the current battle and the personality I targeted gets moved to the other battle (not at a province)
  I was a little hung up on the wording since it say negate the next effect and the effect moves both the performer and the target.
  The more I read it, I'm thinking that it would prevent both TRH and the targeted card from being moved........in otherwords not a cute combo.
  *edit* So it does work.....cool. Thanks!
  A: The movement of each Personality is a separate effect, even though these movements all come the same piece of text, so one may be negated without interference with the others.
  See Definition of Effects: Each individual change or creation of a card, a player, a game entity (such as Provinces), a game procedure is a separate effect. Alex Jones, "The Snow Has Teeth/Surprise Attack", 16 Jun 2012