Benten's Blessing

Legend of the Five Rings card from Promotional–Celestial

Card Type

Celestial

Keywords

Unique, Fortune

Card Text

After this Celestial enters play, choose zero to two face-up Personalities in or out of play. They have +1PH while this Celestial remains in play.
Reaction: When another player's action would target one of your Personalities, target your performing Personality and discard this Celestial to have the action target him instead, if legal.

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Notes

Legal February 1st, 2012, Released to 2011 Level 15, Level 20, and Jewel Event participants

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Hi Rules Team,
  I searched "Benten's Blessing" but no topic came up on this point.
  Let's say that at the beginning of my turn I flip over my provinces to reveal Benten's Blessing, Utaku Jean and Utaku Jane. Does Benten's trait affect only those two cards in my provinces or does it affect any card with those names? I.e. if I had 3 copies of each Personality in my deck, is it affecting the two revealed copies of each or is it affecting all 6 cards with those two names in the deck?
  On a related point, let's assume that on my first turn I flip my provinces to reveal Benten's Blessing and a bunch of gold. Does this situation effectively prevent me from using Benten's trait (I have no personalities in my discard pile and none in my provinces)? Or are cards in my deck viable targets? In this situation I think I'm out of luck, since cards in my deck are considered face-down for game state purposes (or so I understand it).
  Thanks!
  Relevant Card Text:
  A: Benten's Blessing only affects specific cards, not all cards with that title.
  If you don't have any Personalities to target, unfortunately you're SOL. Jon Palmer, "Benten's Blessing", 26 Mar 2013
• Q: I'm looking for clarification on http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=95544
  [url]http://imperialassembly.com/oracle/#cardid=7229,#hashid=7b7c5a1ff049877563ffc528774c4cf4,#cardcount=0[/url]
  Are you able to use a single Shrine to the Heavens to prevent the destruction of multiple celestials (from the appearance of another celestial in your provinces)
  e.g. Jurojin's blessing and Ryoshun's Guidance in play, I flip Benten's Blessing while I control 1 Shrine to the Heavens
  The previous ruling seems to indicate that I can use the single trigger to activate the Shrine multiple times, but my playgroup is quite opposed to this interpretation, indicating that if multiple celestials flipped in a turn you could protect a celestial each time, ending up with 2 celestials in play.
  A: In your example, no.
  A single Shrine to the Heavens will trigger only once when Benten's Blessing is revealed. While traits can trigger multiple times per turn, any one instance of a trait will only resolve once per trigger.
  You will have to pick one of your Celestials in play, and the other will be discarded when Benten's Blessing enters play. Ben Higgins, "Shrine to the Heavens + Multiple Celestials", 13 Jan 2013
• Q: Since this is a reaction, I can change the target to one of my personalities that is NOT at the same location as the original target, correct?
  A: Only if the Personality is still a legal target for the action despite being at a different location (remember the Rule of Location).
  For instance, if the attacker uses a Ranged Attack with No Hiding Place to target a Personality in your home, you may use Benten's Blessing to make him target a Personality in the current battle. However, if he was using a Ranged Attack on a Personality in the current battle, you may not use Benten's Blessing to make him target someone in another battle, as that Personality is not a legal target. Jon Palmer, "Benten's Blessing", 5 May 2012
• Q: just a quick question or two
  I have let say two/three Shrine to the Heavens in play and also two celestial in play and during the event phase another celestial flips in one of the provinces, what will happened next? do I have 3 celestials in play or just 2 or 1?
  also how does the "wind of the moon" and "Benten's Blessing" works with proclaim or it just pump up the PH and proclaim its the base PH?
  thanks.
  A: The trait on Shrine to the Heavens triggers each time a Celestial appears in your province. Unlike abilities, traits are not generally limited to once per turn.
  The Proclaim ability is: Reaction: After you bring a Personality in your province with your Clan alignment into play without Clan discount, if it is your turn: Gain Honor equal to his base Personal Honor.
  Proclaim checks the Personality's base Personal Honour, so it is unaffected by changes to the Personality's current Personal Honour. Alex Jones, "Shrine to the Heavens", 5 Jan 2012