Void Strike

Legend of the Five Rings card from Pearl Edition, Crimson and Jade, Jade Edition, Fire & Shadow

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Kiho, Void

Card Text

Reaction: After one of your Personalities enters a duel, bow your performing Monk or Shugenja: Discard the top card of your Fate deck. Give your Personality a Chi bonus equal to the discard's Focus Value until the duel ends.

Focus Value

3

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial), Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• The revealed card is discarded. [DW, 29 September 1998] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 59
• Erratum: The card drawn is discarded. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 5
• Erratum: Void Strike: Discard the card drawn. The Imperial Herald, Issue 12, p. 34

Rules Q&A

• Q: 2. This is just to check: Can I use Void Strike and/or Double Chi as a reaction when one of my bowed personalities enter a duel?
  A: No, as they both target your duelist under Gold Edition rules. Jeff Alexander, "post for 6 May 2002", 7 May 2002
• Q: I still need to know, for certain, if Shosuro Technique's Reaction can be used in Gold on a bowed Personality or a Personality that is bowing as it enters a duel.
  Doesn't appear so.
  Why can't you? Is Shosuro Technique now a targetted card, even though only one person is ever entering a duel for you at any point and time? So does this apply to Double Chi and Void Strike now too?
  *ERROR: DOES NOT COMPUTE*
  A: I would expect as much from such a faulty computation device... ;)
  The Gold rules on targeting are:
  1. If an effect says it targets, it targets. 2. An effect that applies only to its own card does not target. 3. An effect that applies to all of a particular group does not target. 4. All other effects target.
  Rule 4. All other effects target. As a general guideline (because this is *so* different from the way that Reactions were previously handled), if a Reaction affects a card in play, assume that it targets unless it specifically says otherwise (Poisoned Weapon, for ex). Something that reacts to a trigger event (Counterattack, The Wind's Truth, The Emperor's Left Hand) probably doesn't target. This rule is going to take a while to work out, but will probably be stabler in the long run. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for July 18th", 18 Jul 2001
• Q: Hi everyone,
  I have a question over here. For the kiho Void Strike,
  Kiho Reaction: Bow one of your Shugenja or Monks when a Personality you control has entered a duel, but before the first Focus card is played. Draw your top Fate card and add that card's Focus value to your personality's chi for the remainder of the duel.
  If the opponent does not focus, can i still use void strike? I mean that I am the one initiating the duel and i do not know whether my opponent will focus or strike. So do i still use void strike here?
  A: Yes, you can use Void Strike. The card is kinda poorly worded, but the phrase 'before the first Focus card is played' pretty much means 'before the first opportunity for a Focus card to be played'. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for January 31st", 31 Jan 2001