Watchtower
Legend of the Five Rings card from Gold Edition, Anvil of Despair
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 1
- Keywords
- Fortification
- Card Text
- No player may play Sneak Attack during a battle at this Province's battlefield.
Absent Reaction: Once per battle, after the first time the Attacker or an attacking ally plays a Terrain during a battle at this Province's battlefield, destroy the Terrain. - Legality
- Clan Wars (Imperial), Four Winds (Gold)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Gold Edition
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Audrey Corman
- Card Number
- 495
- Publisher
- Wizards of the Coast
Anvil of Despair
- Rarity
- Common
- Artist
- Dean Vincent White
- Publisher
- Five Rings Publishing Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Just wanted to clarify. Say I have a province which has a Watchtower attached. I favor a unit home. My opponent play's deadly ground. I react with the watchtower and destroy the deadly. He reacts with fall on your knees to cancel my reaction. Can't I just react to the deadly and destroy it again with the watchtower? and then react again for a one life one action?
A: Martin Lund answered thoroughly and correctly, but just to back things up officially...
Watchtower's Reaction happens after the terrain is played but NOT before it resolves, due to the absence of the precise wording possessed by the Ancient Halls of the Lion. Therefore Deadly Ground is already in effect when it's used, so no Reactions that cancel or otherwise interfere with Watchtower's action are legal, as they are actions that don't destroy Deadly Ground. Jeff Alexander, "post for 21 May 2002", 22 May 2002