Event

Event is a card type. Every event has a fate cost ().

Events only appear in the conflict deck and therefore some of them have influence () marks.

Cards

Clan	Name	Traits			Text Box
	A Fate Worse Than Death	—	4	3	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character – bow that character, move it home, dishonor it, and remove 1 fate from it. Until the end of the phase, treat its printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).
	Smuggling Deal	—	0	3	Action: Give an opponent 1 honor and choose an ability on a character you control – you may trigger that ability an additional time this round (or specified period).
	Rebuild	—	0	2	Action: Shuffle a card in one of your unbroken provinces back into your dynasty deck. Choose a holding in your dynasty discard pile – put that holding into play in that province.
	Ride Them Down	—	1	3	Action: During a conflict, discard the Imperial Favor – set the base strength of the attacked province to 1 until the end of the conflict.
	Rout	—	1	—	Action: During a conflict, choose an opponent’s character with lower skill than a participating Bushi character you control – move the chosen character home.
	Sabotage	—	0	—	Earth role only. Action: During a conflict, choose a card in an opponent's province – discard that card.
	Severed From the Stream	Spell. Void.	1	1	Action: Perform a glory count. The player who loses the glory count returns all rings in his or her claimed ring pool to the unclaimed ring pool.
	Smoke and Mirrors	Technique.	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose any number of attacking Shinobi characters you control – move each chosen character home.
	Soul Beyond Reproach	—	1	2	Air role only. Action: Choose a character you control – honor that character. Then, honor it again.
	Raise the Alarm	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict in which you are the defending player – turn a dynasty card in the attacked province faceup. Then, if that card is a character, put it into play as a defender.
	Speak to the Heart	—	0	1	Action: During a conflict, choose a character – that character gets +1 until the end of the conflict for each faceup non-stronghold province your opponent controls. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Specialized Defenses	—	0	1	Earth role only. Action: During a conflict, if the attacked province has an element that matches the contested ring or a ring in your claimed ring pool – double that province's strength until the end of the conflict.
	Spies at Court	—	0	—	Reaction: After you win a conflict, dishonor a (friendly) participating character – discard 2 cards at random from your opponent's hand. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Spoils of War	—	0	2	Reaction: After you win a conflict as the attacker – draw 3 cards. Then, choose and discard 1 card from your hand. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Spreading the Darkness	Mahō. Spell. Earth.	0	2	Action: Lose 2 honor. Choose a participating character you control – until the end of the conflict, that character gets +4 and cannot be targeted by opponents' card abilities.
	Stand Your Ground	—	0	2	Interrupt: When an honored character you control would leave play – instead discard that character's status token.
	Ready for Battle	—	0	1	Reaction: After an opponent's card effect or a ring effect bows a character you control – ready that character.
	Purity of Spirit	—	0	1	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating Bushi character – honor that character. At the end of the conflict, discard any status tokens on it.
	Stolen Secrets	—	1	3	Action: During a conflict, remove 1 fate from a (friendly) participating character – search the top 4 cards of your opponent's conflict deck for a card, remove it from the gane facedown, and put the other cards back on top in any order. While removed from the game, you may play that card as if it were in your hand.
	Noble Sacrifice	—	1	2	Action: Sacrifice a (friendly) honored character. Choose a dishonored character – discard that character.
	Maze of Illusion	Spell. Air.	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character controlled by an opponent – secretly select a number on your honor dial. Then, the chosen character’s controller guesses whether this number is even or odd. Reveal your dial (cannot be modified). If they are wrong, bow and dishonor that character.
	Mirumoto's Fury	—	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose an attacking character with glory X or lower – bow that character. X is equal to the number of unrevealed provinces you control.
	Misinformation	—	1	2	Action: During a conflict, if your honor bid is at least 2 higher than your opponent's – each participating character your opponent controls gets -1 and -1 until the end of the conflict.
	Miyako's Undertaking	—	2	1	Play only if you have 6 or fewer honor. Action: During a conflict, choose a non-unique character in your opponent's dynasty discard pile and a participating character you control – until the end of the conflict, your character becomes a copy of the character in your opponent's discard pile.
	Mono no Aware	—	3	—	Action: Remove 1 fate from each character. Draw 1 card. (Max 1 per round).
	My Ancestor's Strength	Spell. Water.	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating Shugenja character you control and a character in your dynasty discard pile – until the end of the conflict, set the participating character's base and skill equal to the printed and skill of the other character.
	Offer Testimony	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, you and your opponent each chooses a ready participating character he or she controls – each of those players simultaneously reveals a card from his or her hand. Each player who reveals the lowest cost card bows his or her chosen character.
	Press of Battle	—	0	2	Water role only. Action: During a conflict, if you control more participating characters than your opponent, choose a non-unique participating character – bow that character.
	Oracle of Stone	Spell. Earth.	0	2	Action: Each player draws two cards. Then, each player discards 2 cards from his or her hand.
	Outwit	—	1	—	Action: During a conflict, choose an opponent’s character with lower skill than a participating Courtier character you control – move the chosen character home.
	Peasant's Advice	—	1	—	Action: During the conflict phase, dishonor a (friendly) character and choose a province – look at that province if it is facedown. You may shuffle a faceup card in that province into its owner's dynasty deck.
	Perfect Land Ethos	Philosophy.	2	—	Action: Discard each status token.
	Policy Debate	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character you control and a participating character your opponent controls – your character challenges the opponent's character to a duel. The controller of the losing character reveals his or her hand. That player's opponent chooses and discards 1 card from it.
	Prayers to Ebisu	—	3	—	Action: Each player with 19 or more honor loses 4 honor. Each player with 6 or fewer honor gains 4 honor. Draw 1 card.
	Stay Your Hand	—	0	—	Interrupt: When a duel that targets a character you control would resolve – cancel the duel.
	Storied Defeat	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a character that has lost a duel during this conflict – bow that character. You may spend 1 fate to dishonor that character.
	Mantra of Fire	Kihō. Fire.	0	2	Reaction: After an opponent declares a conflict, choose a Monk character or a character with a Monk attachment – place 1 fate on that character and draw 1 card.
	Way of the Crab	Philosophy.	1	—	Action: Sacrifice a (friendly) character. Choose an opponent – that player must sacrifice a character. (Max 1 per round.)
	Void Fist	Kihō. Void.	0	2	Action: During a conflict, if you have played at least 2 other cards this conflict, choose a participating character with equal or lower skill than a participating Monk character you control – move the chosen character home and bow it.
	Walking the Way	Spell. Air.	1	—	If you control a Shugenja character, reduce the cost to play this card by 1. Action: Look at the top 3 cards of your dynasty deck. Discard a card in a province you control, and put one of the looked at cards into that province faceup. Shuffle.
	Waning Hostilities	—	1	—	Reaction: After the conflict phase begins – each player has only one opportunity to declare a conflict this phase.
	Warm Welcome	—	1	—	Play only if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's. Action: Choose a card in your conflict discard pile – play that card as if it were in your hand. If that card is an event, put it on the bottom of your conflict deck.
	Warriors of the Wind	—	2	3	Action: During a conflict – move each participating Cavalry character you control home. Then, choose any number of Cavalry characters you control and move them to the conflict.
	Way of the Chrysanthemum	Imperial. Philosophy.	2	—	Reaction: After 1 or more honor is given to you from an honor bid – gain that much honor. (Max 1 per round.)
	Way of the Crane	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: Choose a character you control – honor that character.
	Unmask	—	1	2	Void role only. Action: During a conflict, if the bid on your honor dial is higher than your opponent's, choose a participating character – discard that character's status token and set its skills to their printed values until the end of the conflict. Its controller gains 2 honor.
	Way of the Lion	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a character – double that character's base skill until the end of the conflict.
	Way of the Phoenix	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: Choose a ring and an opponent – that player cannot declare conflicts of that ring's element this phase. (Max 1 per phase.)
	Way of the Scorpion	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating non- character – dishonor that character.
	Way of the Unicorn	Philosophy.	0	—	Interrupt: When you would pass the first player token – keep it instead.
	Wholeness of the World	Spell. Earth.	0	1	Interrupt: When a ring in your claimed ring pool would be returned to the unclaimed ring pool – it remains claimed instead. (Max 1 per round.)
	Winds of Change	Spell. Air.	0	1	Air role only. Action: Return the ring from a claimed ring pool to the unclaimed ring pool.
	Voice of Honor	—	0	2	Interrupt: When the effects of an event would initiate, if you control more honored characters than an opponent – cancel those effects.
	Unleash the Djinn	Spell. Fire. Meishōdō.	0	3	Fire role only. Action: During a conflict, lose 3 honor – set the and skill of each participating character to 3 until the end of the conflict.
	Strength in Numbers	—	1	2	Action: While you are the attacking player, choose a defending character with glory X or lower – move that character home. X is equal to the number of attacking characters.
	The Mountain Does Not Fall	Technique.	1	3	Action: Choose a character – until the end of the phase, that character does not bow as a result of conflict resolution while defending. (Max 1 per round.)
	Subdue the Spirits	—	2	2	Action: During a conflict, if you are more honorable than your opponent – until the end of the conflict, each participating character you control adds its glory to each of its skills. (This applies in addition to any modifiers to the skills of those characters due to being honored or dishonored.)
	Supernatural Storm	Spell. Water.	0	1	Action: Choose a participating character – that character gets +X and +X until the end of the conflict. X is equal to the number of Shugenja characters you control.
	Taryū-Jiai	—	0	1	Action: During a conflict, choose a Shugenja character you control and a Shugenja character controlled by an opponent – your character challenges your opponent's character to a glory duel. The winner of the duel's controller resolves a ring effect of his or her choice as if he or she was the attacking player.
	Test of Courage	—	1	1	Action: During a conflict, if your honor bid is lower than your opponent's, choose a character you control – move that character to the conflict. Then, honor it.
	Test of Skill	—	1	2	Seeker role only. Action: Name a card type. Reveal the top 3 cards of your conflict deck (top 4 cards instead if you control a Duelist character) – add up to 2 revealed cards of that type to your hand and discard the rest.
	The Fires of Justice	—	2	2	Void role only. Reaction: After you win a conflict, your opponent chooses a participating character he or she controls. Select one – remove all fate from that character, or move any amount of fate from your opponent's fate pool onto that character.
	The Path of Man	Kihō. Philosophy.	0	4	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill – gain 2 fate.
	Ujik Tactics	Gaijin. Tactic.	0	2	Action: During a conflict – each non-unique character you control gets +1 until the end of the conflict.
	The Perfect Gift	—	0	1	Action: Reveal the top 4 cards of each player's conflict deck. Choose 1 revealed card owned by each player and add it to its owner's hand. Shuffle.
	The Spear Rushes Forth	Philosophy.	1	4	Action: During a conflict, discard an honor token from a participating (friendly) character and choose a participating character your opponent controls – bow that character.
	Time for War	—	0	1	Seeker role only. Reaction: After you lose a conflict, choose a Bushi character you control – put a Weapon attachment with printed cost 3 or lower into play from your hand or conflict discard pile, attached to that character.
	Trading on the Sand Road	Gaijin.	0	—	Interrupt: When the draw phase would begin – skip the draw phase. Each player removes the top 4 cards of his or her conflict deck from the game. Until the end of the round, either player may play the removed cards as if they were in his or her hand.
	Tranquility	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict – until the end of the conflict, characters in your opponent's home cannot trigger abilities.
	Try Again Tomorrow	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict in which you control a participating honored Courtier character, choose an attacking character – move that character home.
	Mantra of Water	Kihō. Water.	0	2	Reaction: After your opponent declares a conflict, choose a Monk character or a character with a Monk attachment – ready that character and draw 1 card.
	Mantra of Earth	Kihō. Earth.	0	2	Reaction: After an opponent declares a conflict, choose a Monk character or a character with a Monk attachment – until the end of the conflict, opponents’ card abilities cannot choose that character as a target. Draw 1 card.
	A Legion of One	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a character that is participating on your side alone – until the end of the conflict, that character gets +3. You may remove 1 fate from that character to resolve this ability twice.
	Courteous Scheming	—	2	3	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice – resolve the duel. The controller of the duel's winner may declare an additional conflict this phase. (Max 1 per round.)
	Chasing the Sun	—	1	1	Seeker role only. Action: During a conflict in which you are the attacking player – move the contested ring to another eligible province and reveal it, if able. That province is now the attacked province.
	Civil Discourse	—	1	1	Earth role only. During a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice – resolve the duel. Until the end of the conflict, the duel's loser gains: "Increase the cost to play each card in your hand by 1."
	Clarity of Purpose	Spell. Water.	1	3	Action: During a conflict, choose a character you control – until the end of that conflict, opponents' card effects cannot bow that character d it does not bow as a result of conflict resolution during conflicts.
	Consumed by Five Fires	Spell. Fire.	5	2	Seeker role only. Action: If you control a Shugenja character – remove up to 5 fate from among characters an opponent controls.
	Contingency Plan	—	0	—	Reaction: After honor dials are revealed – increase or decrease the value of your bid by 1 (to a minimum of 0).
	Court Games	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, select one – choose and honor a participating character you control, or your opponent chooses and dishonors a participating character he or she controls. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Curry Favor	—	0	1	Reaction: After a character you control bows as a result of conflict resolution from a second conflict you declared this round – ready that character.
	Challenge on the Fields	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – resolve the duel, giving each dueling character +1 for each other participating character controlled by the same player until the end of the duel. Move the duel's loser home.
	Deceptive Offer	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character you control. Your opponent selects one – that character gets +2 and +2 until the end of the conflict, or your opponent gives you 1 honor.
	Defend Your Honor	—	0	—	Keeper role only. Interrupt: When the effects of an opponent's event would initiate during a conflict, initiate a duel against a character your opponent controls of his or her choice – resolve the duel. If your character is the duel's winner, cancel those effects.
	Discourage Pursuit	—	0	1	Earth role only. Action: Dishonor a (friendly) Shinobi character. Choose a participating character – until the end of the conflict, that character gets -4.
	Disdainful Remark	—	1	1	Keeper role only. Action: During a conflict, if you control a participating Courtier character – until the end of the conflict, the attacked province gets +X strength. X is equal to the number of cards in your opponent's hand.
	Dispatch	—	1	1	Limited. (No more than one limited card can be played by each player each round.) Action: Move a character you control into a conflict or home from a conflict.
	Display of Power	Spell. Fire.	2	3	Reaction: After you lose an unopposed conflict – cancel the ring effect of that conflict. Then, you resolve that ring effect as if you had won the conflict as the attacking player. Claim that ring.
	Charge!	—	1	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a character in one of your provinces – put that character into play in the conflict.
	Censure	Imperial.	0	—	Play only if you have the Imperial Favor. Interrupt: When the effects of an event would initiate – cancel those effects.
	Duty	Philosophy.	0	—	Limit 1 per deck. Interrupt: When the effect of a card ability, ring effect, or framework step would cause you to lose your last honor – cancel that effect, then gain 1 honor.
	Backhanded Compliment	—	1	1	Keeper role only. Action: Choose a player – that player draws 1 card and loses 1 honor.
	A Perfect Cut	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating Bushi character – that character gets +2 until the end of the conflict. If it wins the conflict, honor it.
	Admit Defeat	—	1	2	Action: Choose a character that is defending alone – bow that character.
	Against the Waves	Spell. Water.	1	1	Action: Choose a Shugenja character – bow or ready that character.
	All and Nothing	Spell. Void.	0	2	Interrupt: When you would resolve the ring effect, choose another ring – resolve that ring's effect instead. Draw 1 card.
	Ambush	—	3	1	Action: During a conflict, choose up to 2 characters with total printed cost 6 or lower from your hand and/or provinces – put those characters into play as participating characters.
	Assassination	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, lose 3 honor. Choose a character with printed cost 2 or lower – discard that character. (Max 1 per round.)
	Banzai!	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character – that character gets +2 until the end of the conflict. You may lose 1 honor to resolve this ability twice. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Cavalry Reserves	—	3	2	Action: During a conflict, choose up to 6 printed cost worth of Cavalry characters in your dynasty discard pile – put those characters into play in the conflict.
	Benten's Touch	Spell. Air.	0	1	Action: During a conflict, bow a (friendly) Shugenja character. Choose a participating character you control – honor that character.
	Blackmail	—	3	3	Play only if you are less honorable than your opponent. Action: During a conflict, choose a character controlled by your opponent with printed cost 2 or lower – take control of that character until the end of the conflict.
	Breach of Etiquette	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict – until the end of the conflict, each time a player triggers an ability on a non-Courtier character, he or she loses 1 honor. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Breakthrough	—	0	1	Reaction: After the resolution of your first conflict this phase as the attacking player, if that conflict broke a province – immediately declare your second conflict for this phase.
	Calling in Favors	—	1	2	Action: Dishonor a (friendly) character. Choose an opponent's attachment – take control of that attachment and attach it to that character, if able. Otherwise, discard the attachment.
	Captive Audience	—	0	3	Action: During a conflict, lose 1 honor – change the conflict type to .
	Duel to the Death	—	1	3	Action: During a conflict, initiate a duel – your opponent may dishonor his or her character to refuse the duel. Otherwise, resolve the duel. Discard the duel's loser.
	Earth Becomes Sky	Spell. Earth.	1	1	Earth role only. Reaction: After a character an opponent controls is readied – bow that character.
	Make an Opening	—	0	1	Action: During a conflict in which you control a participating character, choose a participating character controlled by your opponent – that character gets -X and -X until the end of the conflict, where X is the difference between the bid on your honor dial and that of your opponent.
	Karmic Balance	Philosophy.	2	4	Play only if your honor bid is equal to an opponent's. Action: Each player shuffles his or her hand and conflict discard pile into his or her conflict deck and draws 4 cards. Remove this card from the game.
	Hurricane Punch	Kihō. Air.	0	1	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating Monk character – that character gets +2 until the end of the conflict. Draw 1 card.
	I Am Ready	—	0	1	Action: Remove 1 fate from a (friendly) character – ready that character.
	I Can Swim	Philosophy.	2	1	Action: During a conflict, if the bid on your honor dial is higher than an opponent's, choose a participating dishonored character controlled by that opponent – discard that character.
	In Defense of Rokugan	—	1	2	Action: During a conflict, sacrifice a (friendly) defending character and choose an attacking character – set the attacking character's skill to 0 until the end of the conflict.
	Indomitable Will	—	1	2	Reaction: After you win a conflict in which you control only a single participating character – that character does not bow as a result of the conflict's resolution.
	Insult to Injury	—	0	1	Reaction: After a Duelist character you control wins a duel – dishonor the losing character.
	Karmic Twist	Spell. Void.	1	3	Action: Choose a non-unique character with 1 or more fate on it – move each fate from that character to a non-unique character with no fate on it controlled by the same player.
	Harmonize	—	1	1	Keeper role only. Action: During a conflict in which you are the defending player, choose a defending character and an attacking character with equal or lower printed cost – move each chosen character home.
	Kirei-ko	—	1	3	Reaction: After a character your opponents control triggers an ability – bow that character.
	Know the World	Spell. Void.	1	3	Action: Switch a ring in your claimed ring pool with an unclaimed ring and gain all fate on that ring. (Retain the ring's conflict type.)
	Leniency	—	0	1	Air role only. Interrupt: When you would resolve a ring effect, choose a character with printed cost 2 or lower in your provinces – instead of resolving the ring effect, put that character into play.
	Let Go	—	0	2	Action: Choose an attachment – discard it.
	Levy	—	0	3	Action: Choose an opponent, that player must select one – give you 1 fate or 1 honor.
	Magnificent Triumph	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict, chose a character that had won a duel during this conflict – until the end of the conflict, that character gets +2, +2 , and cannot be chosen as the target of opponent's events.
	High Kick	Technique.	1	2	Action: During a conflict, bow a (friendly) participating Monk character. Choose a participating character controlled by your opponent – bow that character. It cannot trigger abilities during this conflict.
	Hand to Hand	—	0	1	Action: During a conflict, choose an attachment on a participating character – discard the attachment. Then, your opponent may resolve this ability.
	Embrace Death	Philosophy.	1	4	Reaction: After a Bushi character you control loses a conflict as the attacker, sacrifice it. Choose a character controlled by your opponent – if that character has no fate on it, discard it. Otherwise, remove 1 fate from it.
	For Shame!	—	0	—	Action: During a conflict, if you control a participating Courtier character, choose a participating character controlled by your opponent. Your opponent must select one – dishonor the chosen character or bow it.
	Even the Odds	Tactic.	0	2	Action: During a conflict, if you control fewer participating characters than your opponent, choose a character you control – move that character to the conflict. If that character is a Commander, honor it.
	Fair Accord	—	0	2	Action: During the dynasty phase, discard the Imperial Favor – gain 2 fate.
	Fallen in Battle	—	1	—	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill, choose a participating character – discard that character. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Festival for the Fortunes	Festival.	3	1	Action: Honor each character.
	Fight On	—	1	2	Water role only. Action: While you are the defending player, choose a bowed character you control – ready that character and move it to the conflict.
	For Greater Glory	—	1	3	Reaction: After you break a province during a conflict – place 1 fate on each participating Bushi character you control. (Max 1 per conflict.)
	Forged Edict	—	0	2	Interrupt: When the effects of an event would initiate, dishonor a (friendly) Courtier character – cancel those effects.
	Gossip	—	0	3	Limited. (No more than one limited card can be played by each player each round.) Action: Name a card. Until the end of the phase, each opponent cannot play cards from his or her hand with that name.
	From the Shadows	—	0	1	Play only if you are less honorable than an opponent. Action: During a conflict – put a Shinobi character into play from your hand or provinces in the conflict. That character enters play dishonored.
	Gaijin Customs	—	1	1	Action: If you control a card, choose a non- character – ready the chosen character.
	Game of Sadane	—	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating character you control and a participating character your opponent controls – your character challenges the opponent's character to a duel. Honor the duel's winner and dishonor the duel's loser.
	Gift of Amaterasu	Spell. Fire.	1	3	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill, chose a character you control – honor that character.
	Glorious Victory	—	3	3	Reaction: After you break a province during a conflict – honor each character you control.
	Good Omen	—	0	—	Play only if your honor bid is lower than an opponent's. Action: Choose a character with printed cost 3 or higher – place 1 fate on that character.
	Written in the Stars	Omen.	1	2	Action: Select one – place 1 fate on each unclaimed ring with no fate or remove 1 fate from each unclaimed ring.