If I use shinjo Courage and don't Destroy a card I win honor??
Shinjo's Courage
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If I use shinjo Courage and don't Destroy a card I win honor??
Shinjo's Courage: "Shinjo’s Courage 2G 2FV This action costs 2 less Gold if you are a Unicorn Clan player. Battle: Target one of your unbowed Personalities and a target Follower, or unbowed Personality without Followers, opposing him: Reduce the opposing target’s Force by the difference in Personal Honor between the targets’ units’ Personalities. If this reduced its Force to 0, destroy it and gain Honor equal to your Personality’s Personal Honor."
Both the destruction and the honour gain are dependent on reducing the force to 0. If the destruction is negated you still gain the honour - as long as you reduced the target's force to 0.
On: Shinjo's Courage