Vengeful Shadows
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Ninja
- Card Text
- Battle: Bow your performing Ninja Personality and target an enemy Personality: Lose 2 Honor. Give him two -1F/-1C Poison tokens. You may move your Ninja home.
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Truest Test
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Our lord was murdered, Aroru," Tosun said. "Betrayed. It is time to remind the Empire how the Scorpion treat traitors."
- Artist
- Tiago da Silva
- Card Number
- 124
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Vengeful Shadows:
Text Ninja Battle: Bow one of your target Ninja Personalities: Lose 2 Honor. Give a target Personality opposing your Ninja two -1F/-1C Poison tokens. You may move your Ninja home.
Gunso Hirobumi:
Can only attach to a Scorpion Clan Personality. Reaction: After this Personality bows to pay a cost of a non-Political action: Straighten him.
If Bayushi Ninja is the target of Vengeful Shadows and has Gunso Hirobumi attached, would he straighten immediately after "Bow one of your target Ninja Personalities" and before "Lose two honor"? Or, would Bayushi Ninja straighten after "You may move your Ninja home"? After reading the rules section on timing, http://rules.l5r.com/Timing, it seems the reaction would take place before the action finishes resolving and before the action's effects would take place. I this a correct interpretation of the rules? Thx
A: Yes, you are correct.
It helps to look at the Reaction in bits: "After this Pesonalitiy bows..." is when it happens. "...to pay the cost of a non-Political action" is just a restriction on the type of bowing to which the Follower can react. Brook Cunningham, "Gunso (also Shosuro) Hirobumi & Vengeful Shadows", 25 May 2008