Whispering Archive
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Shadow's Embrace
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Your Spells enter play for 1 less Gold.
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
The Shadow's Embrace
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- If you listened closely, you could almost hear the scrolls murmuring to each other of past wars and future wonders.
- Artist
- Chris Malidore
- Card Number
- 14
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: The Sun's Aspiration Whispering Archive
Does the Archive produce 1G after being targetted with Sun's Aspiration?
A: No.
Whispering Archive does not have a trait or ability that allows it to bow to produce Gold. The Sun's Aspiration does not grant a new trait or ability, it simply modifies any existing ones. Ben Higgins, "Whispering Archive and Sun's Aspiration", 9 Dec 2012 - Q: Hi,
Acording to this errata http://www.l5r.com/2012/09/17/errata/ if I want to atach the spell in open action wchich cost is 3 gold and I have in play one whispering archive does the low market cost reduce the spell cost by 2 and then goes the trait from whispering so the spell is for free or does the trait goes first and low market reduce the cost of spell by one to the 1 gold cost?
Whispering Archive: Your Spells enter play paying 1 less Gold.
thx for reply
A: The spell would cost 1g.
According to the rules on reductions "to a minimum", unrestricted bonuses & penalties are applied first.
As a slightly more complicated example, if you had 2x Whispering Archive in play, a 2g spell would attach for free with Low Market, since the Whispering Archives reduce the cost to 0g; the "to a minimum" clause on Low Market would not cause the cost to be increased. Alex Jones, "Low market and whispering archive", 18 Sep 2012