Strong Defenses
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Shadow's Embrace
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Siege
- Card Text
- Reaction: After a Ranged or Melee Attack is targeted: Give it -3 strength.
Battle: Choose your performing defending Personality: Give him +5F. Straighten him before this battle resolves. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
The Shadow's Embrace
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- To those on the Wall, nothing had changed. They fought and won, or fought and died, just as before.
- Artist
- Albert Tavira
- Card Number
- 143
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: For example: A) I announce the following action: Battle: Ranged 5 attack
I play Precision for the +2, my opponent plays Strong Defenses, then I play Sniping
Is a RA 8 the only outcome of this scenario?
A: Yes.
This is how it breaks down: You have a RA5. Since all the Reactions in this scenario have the same trigger, they can be played in Step D of Timing Sequence and we have to allow each of them to fully resolve when they are played. Precision resolves. This leaves us with RA5+2 (RA7 Total). Strong Defenses resolves. This leaves us with RA5+2-3 (RA4 Total.) Sniping resolves. Sniping checks to see the current RA strength before setting its bonus, which currently is 4 as defined by timing sequence and calculating a stat. This leaves us with RA5+2-3+4 (RA8 Total.) Ben Higgins, "Order for multiple effects modifying ranged attacks", 21 Nov 2013