Defensive Grill
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Shadow's Embrace, Ivory Edition
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Card Text
- Absent Battle: Move a target Personality (at the current battlefield) to an unresolved battlefield where he would be opposed. (You may take Absent actions without presence.)
- Focus Value
- 3
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Shadow's Embrace
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- Generals seek to confound, outflank, and stymie their foes. Victorious generals deny their opponents such opportunities.
- Artist
- J. Edwin Stevens
- Card Number
- 114
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Ivory Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "It looks like their defenses gathered on the northern front, my lord."
"Is it battle they want? Let us give it to them." - Artist
- J. Edwin Stevens
- Card Number
- 299
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Hello,
So I'm just wondering why Defensive Grill states the battle action as being an "Absent Battle" if it specifies that the personality that is going to be moved must be at the current battlefield and that it has to move to an unresolved battlefield where it will be opposed. Aren't the new rules regarding presence satisfied and hence the "absent" unnecessary.
Thank you!
A: It's because the targeted Personality needn't be yours; you can target another player's Personality at the current battlefield where you have no units and move him to one where he would be opposed... so you can get 'im! Get 'im good! Brook Cunningham, "Defensive Grill - Why is it "Absent Battle"?", 14 Apr 2014 - Q: Quick question and I couldn't find anything on this specific case so I apologize!
Does Unexpected Discovery require that the battlefield I move my unit to be unresolved? I only ask because A Moving Battle specifically states that a battlefield must be unresolved whereas Unexpected Discovery does not make such a claim.
Defensive Grill is another example of a card that specifies unresolved.
Unexpected Discovery: Battle: Move your target opposed Personality (at the current battlefield) to an adjacent battlefield. A Moving Battle: Before this battle resolves, you may move one of your opposed attacking Personalities at this battlefield to an adjacent, unresolved battlefield.
My assumption is that if you move a unit to a resolved battlefield, the unit would just go home if attacking and remain at the battlefield if defending via the resolution of battle rules, but I wanted to check and be sure!
Cheers!
A: You are correct, Unexpected Discovery does not require the battlefield be unresolved.
You are mistaken however, that an attacking unit moving to a resolved battlefield would automatically move home. He will move to and remain at the resolved battlefield until it ceases to exist, when then the unit will return home, bowed. Ben Higgins, "Unexpected Discovery", 7 Jan 2014 - Q: OK this is a slight continuation from viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 . If I play Ambush, am I assigning my opponents personality or is he? Similarly, if I play Defensive Grill or any other harpooning card on my opponents personality, am I considered to be the one moving his personality?
References: viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367 And viewtopic.php?f=59&t=99367
A: When an action says, "Assign the target", the player taking the action is the one doing the assigning. Alex Jones, "You will not (x) vs. other players effects", 21 Aug 2012