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).
	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.
	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.
	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.)
	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.
	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.)
	Soul Beyond Reproach	—	1	2	Air role only. Action: Choose a character you control – honor that character. Then, honor it again.
	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).
	Smoke and Mirrors	Technique.	1	2	Action: During a conflict, choose any number of attacking Shinobi characters you control – move each chosen character home.
	Sabotage	—	0	—	Earth role only. Action: During a conflict, choose a card in an opponent's province – discard that card.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Ready for Battle	—	0	1	Reaction: After an opponent's card effect or a ring effect bows a character you control – ready that 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.
	Stay Your Hand	—	0	—	Interrupt: When an opponent initiates a duel that targets a character you control – cancel the duel.
	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.
	Perfect Land Ethos	Philosophy.	2	—	Action: Discard each status token.
	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.
	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.
	Oracle of Stone	Spell. Earth.	0	2	Action: Each player draws two cards. Then, each player discards 2 cards from his or her hand.
	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.
	Noble Sacrifice	—	1	2	Action: Sacrifice a (friendly) honored character. Choose a dishonored character – discard that character.
	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.
	Mono no Aware	—	3	—	Action: Remove 1 fate from each character. Draw 1 card. (Max 1 per round).
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Stand Your Ground	—	0	2	Interrupt: When an honored character you control would leave play – instead discard that character's status token.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Winds of Change	Spell. Air.	0	1	Air role only. Action: Return the ring from a claimed ring pool to the unclaimed ring pool.
	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.)
	Way of the Unicorn	Philosophy.	0	—	Interrupt: When you would pass the first player token – keep it instead.
	Way of the Scorpion	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a participating non- character – dishonor that character.
	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 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 Crane	Philosophy.	0	—	Action: Choose a character you control – honor that character.
	Way of the Crab	Philosophy.	1	—	Action: Sacrifice a (friendly) character. Choose an opponent – that player must sacrifice a character. (Max 1 per round.)
	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.)
	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.
	Waning Hostilities	—	1	—	Reaction: After the conflict phase begins – each player has only one opportunity to declare a conflict this phase.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Tranquility	—	0	2	Action: During a conflict – until the end of the conflict, characters in your opponent's home cannot trigger abilities.
	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.
	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.
	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 Path of Man	Kihō. Philosophy.	0	4	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill – gain 2 fate.
	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.)
	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 to that character.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.)
	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.
	Censure	Imperial.	0	—	Play only if you have the Imperial Favor. Interrupt: When the effects of an event would initiate – cancel those effects.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.)
	Contingency Plan	—	0	—	Reaction: After honor dials are revealed – increase or decrease the value of your bid by 1 (to a minimum of 0).
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Charge!	—	1	—	Action: During a conflict, choose a character in one of your provinces – put that character into play in the conflict.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Captive Audience	—	0	3	Action: During a conflict, lose 1 honor – change the conflict type to .
	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.
	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.
	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.)
	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.
	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.
	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.)
	Backhanded Compliment	—	1	1	Keeper role only. Action: Choose a player – that player draws 1 card and loses 1 honor.
	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.)
	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.
	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.
	Against the Waves	Spell. Water.	1	1	Action: Choose a Shugenja character – bow or ready that character.
	Admit Defeat	—	1	2	Action: Choose a character that is defending alone – bow that character.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Levy	—	0	3	Action: Choose an opponent, that player must select one – give you 1 fate or 1 honor.
	Let Go	—	0	2	Action: Choose an attachment – discard it.
	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.)
	Kirei-ko	—	1	3	Reaction: After a character your opponents control triggers an ability – bow that 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.
	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.
	Insult to Injury	—	0	1	Reaction: After a Duelist character you control wins a duel – dishonor the losing character.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	I Am Ready	—	0	1	Action: Remove 1 fate from a (friendly) character – ready that character.
	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.
	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.
	Fair Accord	—	0	2	Action: During the dynasty phase, discard the Imperial Favor – gain 2 fate.
	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.
	Gossip	—	0	—	—
	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.
	Glorious Victory	—	3	3	Reaction: After you break a province during a conflict – honor each character you control.
	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.
	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.
	Gaijin Customs	—	1	1	Action: If you control a card, choose a non- character – ready the chosen character.
	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.
	Forged Edict	—	0	2	Interrupt: When the effects of an event would initiate, dishonor a (friendly) Courtier character – cancel those effects.
	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.
	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.)
	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.
	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.)
	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.