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A player, 12 April 2008
A Legacy question.......one that has bugged me for years and I've never bothered to have answered.
How does/did Duty to the Clan work? Is its Reaction triggered only if the Personality dies at resolution or after resolution if he died at any time during the battle? I'm sure in the brave new world of Samurai templating this would never have happened but the archaic wording is ambiguous.
Thanks,
Brent.
Duty to the Clan Reaction: Play after the resolution phase of a battle in which one of your Personalities that is aligned to your clan was destroyed. Choose one of your clan's Personalities that is currently face up in one of your Provinces. This Personality has its gold cost permanently reduced to zero.
Brook Cunningham (rules official), 12 April 2008
A Legacy question.......one that has bugged me for years and I've never bothered to have answered.
How does/did Duty to the Clan work? Is its Reaction triggered only if the Personality dies at resolution or after resolution if he died at any time during the battle? I'm sure in the brave new world of Samurai templating this would never have happened but the archaic wording is ambiguous.
Thanks,
Brent.
Duty to the Clan Reaction: Play after the resolution phase of a battle in which one of your Personalities that is aligned to your clan was destroyed. Choose one of your clan's Personalities that is currently face up in one of your Provinces. This Personality has its gold cost permanently reduced to zero.
Actually, it's the brave old world of Gold Edition templating that got it right.
I direct you to the GE MRP text:
"Reaction: Play this card after a battle Resolution Segment in which one of your Personalities of your Faction was destroyed. Permanently lower the Gold cost of one of your Faction's Personalities that is face up in one of your Provinces to 0."
So, Duty to the Clan can only trigger if you had a Personality destroyed during resolution.