Traveling Magistrate

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test

Card Type

Follower

Force

2

Chi

0

Honor Requirement

1

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

-

Keywords

Magistrate

Card Text

Political Reaction: When paying a Gold Cost of a Fate card or an action during a battle: Produce 2 Gold.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Ability can be used for any Fate card at any time, or any action on any card only during a battle. [ZF, web, 27 May 2007] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 47

Rules Q&A

• Q: I don't understand the ruling made here.
  In the wiki, we have : Modifiers attached to a phrase in the form of "a [modifier] X or a Y" or "a [modifier] X and a Y" modify only the first thing in the phrase; they do not carry over the "a." Example: "A Shadowlands Shugenja or a Monk" does not imply that the Monk has to be Shadowlands.
  Traveling Magistrate reads : Political Reaction: When paying a Gold Cost of a Fate card or an action during a battle: Produce 2 Gold.
  it really seems to me to be a case of "When paying a Gold Cost of a X or a Y [modifier]", so the modifier, because of this a isn't carried over the X.
  A: The modifier is outside of the "a X or a Y" clause. If the modifier were between either of the "a X" or "a Y" clauses, then you would be correct. Chris Fuchs, "Conjonction and parsing.", 29 Aug 2007
• Q: Link to original post
  (quoted from ChrisF, bolded emphasis changed) Modifiers attached to a phrase in the form of "a [modifier] X or Y" or "a [modifier] X and Y" modify both things in that phrase. Example: "A Shadowlands Shugenja or Monk" means "a Shadowlands Shugenja or a Shadowlands Monk." If "a Monk or a Shadowlands Shugenja" is meant, it will be written that way. Likewise, "a Shugenja or Monk without attachments" means "a Shugenja without attachments or a Monk without attachments."
  (most recent ruling) Fate card during battle, or action during battle.
  (card text from Traveling Magistrate) Political Reaction: When paying a Gold Cost of a Fate card or an action during a battle: Produce 2 Gold.
  Shouldn't 'a Fate card' followed by 'an action' mean that the two are considered using the bolded portion of text? (compare with the bolded text in the linked topic)
  A: In this case, it is "X or Y [modifier]" where X = Fate card, Y = action, [modifier] = during battle. Chris Fuchs, "Traveling Magistrate", 29 Aug 2007
• Q: Based upon this ruling:
  viewtopic.php?t=58576
  Could the rules team please review this ruling:
  viewtopic.php?t=57530&highlight=traveling+magistrate
  Thanks!
  A: There's no modifier in Traveling Magistrate's text. Zen Faulkes, "Traveling Magistrate follow-up", 25 Jun 2007
• Q: i'm not 100% sure on how to parse traveling magistrate.
  is it
  a. When paying a Gold Cost of a <fate card> or <an action during battle> : pay 2
  OR
  b. When paying a Gold Cost of a <fate card or an action> during battle: pay 2
  that is to say, paying 2 for a fate card: anytime or only during battle?
  thanks.
  A: Any Fate card at any time, or an action only during a battle. Zen Faulkes, "Traveling Magistrate", 27 May 2007