Visage of the Orochi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Before the Dawn

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Fear, Thunder

Card Text

Battle: Choose your performing opposed unbowed Thunder Personality: Raise his Force to 6. You may target and bow an enemy card with lower Force and no attachments.

Focus Value

1

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I play Visage of the Orochi and choose as my optional target an opposing Samurai. My opponent reacts with know no fear, since Visage is a fear action. Am I right in thinking that my personality's force has been already raised to 6 and that force bonus will not be negated, as it comes before the playing of Know no Fear?
  Relevant texts:
  Visage of the Orochi Thunder • Fear Battle: Choose your performing opposed unbowed Thunder Personality: Raise his Force to 6. You may target and bow an enemy card with lower Force and no attachments.
  Know no Fear Bushido Virtue • Courage Reaction: After a Fear action targets your performing Samurai: Negate its effects.
  A: The ongoing force bonus from Visage of the Orochi is negated by Know No Fear.
  See Duration and scope of prevention effects, in particular: Continuous and ongoing effects that came into being before a relevant prevention effect was applied are still affected by it, by default. Continuous and ongoing effects that came into being after a relevant prevention effect was applied are also affected by it while the prevention lasts, by default.
  and
  If a prevention effect is already being applied and prevents a new ongoing effect, the new ongoing effect never happens; it does not re-assert itself when the prevention effect ends. Alex Jones, "Visage of the Orochi and Know no Fear", 29 Feb 2012