Unexpected News

Legend of the Five Rings card from Khan's Defiance

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Open: Choose your performing Courtier, bow him unless he is Crane Clan, and target another player's bowed Personality: His controller may straighten him. If he straightened, gain 3 Honor. If he did not, negate his straightening until after his controller's next Straighten Phase ends.

Focus Value

3

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Ok. I just get confused in L5R if a card doesn't expressly state "Gain Honor" is it the card that is giving the honor, or the effect? I had a similar question about Unexpected News.
  A: I don't quite understand how you can say that Fields of Honor doesn't say "gain Honor", because I can see it in both the original and new wording. Also: From
  Some things check to see if costs, effects, actions, targeting, or other game procedures come “from” a given source. The source is the card that the effect, action or targeting is printed on, or the rulebook if it is printed there. There are three exceptions:
  Targeting and destruction by Ranged Attacks come from the card that created the Ranged Attack, not the rulebook. A Personality’s destruction for having 0 Chi comes from the cost or effect that last gave the Personality a Chi penalty, or from the rulebook if there was no such cost or effect. Costs and effects of traits and abilities given to other cards, copied from other cards, or on created cards, come from the card they are currently on. The source of tokens’ effects is the card or other source that created them.
  Effects "from" battle resolution, such as destruction or Honor gain, refer only to the rulebook effects of battle resolution.
  See also Source of Effects. Alex Jones, "Oracle of the Void #rules", 16 May 2023