Ungrateful Host

Legend of the Five Rings card from Honor's Veil

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Political

Card Text

Limited: Choose your performing Courtier or Magistrate: After each time this turn another player's card's effect destroys one of your cards, if your cards' effects have not destroyed any of his cards this turn, he loses 3 honor and dishonors one of his honorable Personalities.

Focus Value

2

Legality

Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I played Ungrateful Host, declared an attack, and my opponent used an action to destroy one of my units with 3 attachments on it, from say "The Seventh Tower", how many of their personalities would that person have to dishonor? Would it be 4 since destroying a unit destroys 4 cards?
  How about instead of using an action to destroy one of my units, they use an action to destroy one of my personalities which happens to have 3 attachments on it? Would this be 1 then because they are destroying a personality and not the attachments in this case?
  A: If Ungrateful Host is in effect and an action is played by the opponent that destroys a personality with three attachments, then the opponent loses 3 honor and dishonors one personality.
  If Ungrateful Host is in effect and an action is played by the opponent that destroys a unit with three attachments, then the opponent loses 12 honor and dishonors four personalities.
  This is per Using Attachments on attachments leaving play when their Personality leaves play: "This leaving play is a rulebook effect contingent on the effect that took the Personality out of play, so the attachments are destroyed for" (as a consequence of) the original effect, but not "by" the original effect." Doruk Özaydın, "Ungrateful Host", 28 Feb 2008