Wrathful Ancestor
Legend of the Five Rings card from Second City
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Fear
- Card Text
- Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Spirit and target an enemy Personality: Move him home. This movement will not be negated.
- Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor), Destroyer War (Celestial)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Second City
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- Rokugani revere their ancestors. Terror strikes deeply when their ancestors judge them unworthy.
- Artist
- Sergio Camarena
- Card Number
- 152
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: This came up in play and we wanted to make sure we did it correctly. Wrathful Ancestor was played on tattooed monk who countered with Snake Tattoo and moved to an adjacent battlefield. Does the monk still move home or is that movement negated?
Wrathful Ancestor Battle: Choose your performing unbowed Spirit and target an enemy Personality: Move him home. This movement will not be negated.
Snake Tattoo Reaction: After another player's Battle action targets your Tattooed Personality: Move him to an adjacent battlefield. If he is no longer a legal target for that action, negate its effects.
A: Your Monk would still move home.
The "This movement will not be negated" clause is not an "effect" in itself, but rather modifies the preceeding effect. Therefore, it is not negated by Snake Tattoo's blanket negation of the action's effects, and it also prevents the movement from being negated by Snake Tattoo either. Brook Cunningham, "Wrathful Ancestor vs Snake Tattoo.", 8 Jan 2012