Province

Province cards

Province cards are not part of any deck and each is associated with a Ring. They only have a strength value () and don't have any traits (except Before the Throne).

Each player has exactly five provinces; one from each ring. The stronghold is placed in one province of the players choice, while the other four provinces contain each one card from the dynasty deck.

In a conflict the attacked province can be broken, if the attacker has equal or higher skill than the defender's skill plus the province strength.

Broken provinces can no longer be attacked and face-up cards in them are automatically discarded in the Regroup Phase. Abilities on broken provinces can no longer be used.

A province with a fivefold tomoe symbol in place of a single element, counts as a province of all five elements at all times and can be selected during deck construction to fulfill the province slot of any element.

Cards

Clan	Name	Ring		Text Box
	Abandoning Honor		3	This province gets +2 strength while you have a Fire role. Interrupt: When this province is broken, choose a dishonored character – discard that character.
	Ninkatoshi		5	Eminent. (This province starts the game faceup and cannot be turned facedown. It cannot be a stronghold province.) Each other province gets -1 strength if controlled by an opponent and + 1 strength if controlled by you or a teanmate.
	Rally to the Cause		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – switch the conflict type. (The conflict retains its element.)
	Raging Battleground		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed, choose a non-unique character with no fate on it – discard that character.
	Public Forum		3	Cannot be a stronghold province. Interrupt: When this province would be broken, if there are no honor tokens on it – place 1 honor token on it instead.
	Pilgrimage		5	During conflicts at this province, cancel all ring effects. (If this province breaks, resolve ring effects as normal.)
	Overlooked Virtues		4	Draft format only Reaction: After this province is revealed, choose a character – honor that character. If that character is bowed, gain 1 honor.
	Noteworthy Deeds		4	Draft format only Interrupt: During a conflict, choose a participating character – that character gains pride until the end of the conflict. (You may trigger this ability during a conflict at any province.)
	Night Raid		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – your opponent chooses and discards X cards from his or her hand. X is equal to the number of attacking characters.
	Riot in the Streets		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, if you control 3 or more participating Bushi characters, choose a participating character – bow that character.
	Midnight Revels		4	Reaction: After a conflict is declared against this province, choose a character with the highest printed cost among characters in play – bow that character.
	Meditations on the Tao		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose an attacking character – remove 1 fate from that character.
	Massing at Twilight		8	Void role only. While resolving conflicts at this province, each character counts its combined and skill.
	Market of Kaze-no-Kami		3	Reaction: After this province is revealed, choose a character that is not honored – bow that character.
	Manicured Garden		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – gain 1 fate.
	Magistrate Station		3	Action: Choose an honored character – ready that character.
	Restoration of Balance		3	Interrupt: When this province is broken – your opponent chooses and discards cards from his or her hand until that player has 4 or fewer cards in hand.
	Sacred Sanctuary		2	Reaction: After an attack has been declared in this province, choose a Monk character you control – ready that character. Until the end of the conflict, that character cannot be bowed by opponents' card effects or as a result of conflict resolution.
	Kuni Wasteland		4	During conflicts at this province, your opponent cannot trigger character abilities or initiate keywords from character he or she controls. (Covert is initiated before this province is revealed.)
	Temple of the Dragons		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – resolve the contested ring's effects as if you were the attacking player.
	Vassal Fields		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – your opponent loses 1 fate.
	Upholding Authority		3	This province gets +2 strength while you have an Earth role. Interrupt: When this province is broken – the attacking player reveals his or her hand. Choose a card in their hand and discard any number of copies of that card from their hand.
	Untamed Steppe		6	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose another unbroken province – turn that province facedown.
	Toshi Ranbo		3	This province starts the game faceup and cannot be turned facedown. It cannot be a stronghold province. Characters played from this province enter play with 1 additional fate on them.
	The Art of War		3	Interrupt: When this province is broken – draw 3 cards.
	The Art of Peace		4	Interrupt: When this province is broken – dishonor each attacking character and honor each defending character.
	Tears of Amaterasu		4	Keeper role only. Reaction: After this province is revealed – gain 1 fate for each attacking character.
	Sanpuku Seidō		1	Cannot be a stronghold province. While resolving a conflict at this province, characters count their glory instead of their skill and skill.
	Teachings of the Elements		5	This province gets +1 strength for each claimed ring.
	Smuggler's Cove		4	Seeker role only. During a conflict at this province, choose a character you control and select one – either move that character to the conflict or move it home.
	Shrug Off Despair	—	6
	Shameful Display		3	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose 2 participating characters – honor one of those characters and dishonor the other.
	Seeking the Truth		3	This province gets +2 strength while you have a Water role. Interrupt: When this province is broken, choose a defending character – move that character home.
	Secret Cache		4	Reaction: After a conflict is declared against this province – search the top 5 cards of your conflict deck for a card and add it to your hand. Shuffle.
	Scene of the Crime		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – look at your opponent's hand.
	Kuroi Mori		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, select one – switch the contested ring with an unclaimed ring (the conflict retains its type), or switch the conflict type (the conflict retains its element).
	Kiku Matsuri		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a participating character controlled by each player – honor each of those characters.
	Along the River of Gold		4	Water role only. Action: During a conflict at a province, choose a participating character – switch that character’s base and skill until the end of the conflict.
	Conflict Between Kin		5	During conflicts at this province, each participating character your opponent controls cannot be chosen as the target of an event and cannot have an attachment played on it if that card shares a clan affiliation with the character.
	Emperor's Summons		5	Seeker role only. Reaction: After this province is revealed – search your dynasty deck for a character card and put it faceup into a non-stronghold province you control, discarding each other card in the province. Shuffle.
	Elemental Fury		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – switch the contested ring with an unclaimed ring. (The conflict retains its type.)
	Effective Deception		4	Interrupt: When the effects of a triggered ability would initiate during a conflict at this province – cancel those effects.
	Dishonorable Assault		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, discard one of more cards from your hand. Choose an equal number of attacking characters – dishonor each of those characters.
	Demonstrating Excellence		3	This province gets +2 strength while you have an Air role. Interrupt: When this province is broken – gain 1 fate and draw 1 card.
	Defend the Wall		4	Reaction: After you win a conflict at this province – resolve the ring effect of that conflict as if you were the attacking player.
	City of the Rich Frog		3	Eminent. (This province starts the game faceup and cannot be turned facedown. It cannot be a stronghold province.) After setup, fill this province to 3 cards. When you would refill this province, refill it to 3 cards instead of 1.
	Endless Plains		2	Reaction: After an attack is declared here, break this province. Your opponent chooses an attacking character – discard that character.
	Brother's Gift Dōjō		4	Action: During a conflict, lose 1 honor and choose a participating character you control – move that character home. (Limit twice per round.)
	Border Fortress		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a facedown province – reveal that province.
	Blood of Onnotangu		3	Seeker role only. During conflicts at this province, each player cannot spend fate from his or her fate pool.
	Before the Throne		5	Cannot be a stronghold province. Interrupt: When this province is broken – take 2 honor from your opponent.
	Appealing to the Fortunes		3	This province gets +2 strength while you have a Void role. Interrupt: When this province is broken – put a character into play from one of your provinces or from your hand.
	Ancestral Lands		5	This province gets +5 strength during conflicts.
	Empty Pockets		4	Draft format only Reaction: After this province is revealed – your opponent discards 1 card from their hand, loses 1 fate, and loses 1 honor.
	Enticing Wares		4	Draft format only Action: During a conflict at this province, spend 1 fate to an attacking character – bow that character.
	Khan's Ordu		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – if the current conflict is , switch the conflict type. Each conflict declared this phase is instead of its normal type.
	Guardians of the Seikitsu		5	Earth role only. Reaction: After this province is revealed – bow each character with printed cost 2 or lower.
	Kenson no Gakka		5	Reaction: After you lose a conflict at this province – honor each defending character.
	Karmic Teachings		3	Interrupt: When this province is broken – move each ring claimed on it to your unclaimed ring pool.
	Kakudaira	—	5	Eminent. (This province starts the game faceup and cannot be turned facedown. It cannot be a stronghold province.) After each phase begins, reveal each facedown cards in this province.
	Into the Forbidden City		5	Keeper role only. Action: During a conflict at this province, choose an attachment on an attacking character – discard that attachment.
	Illustrious Forge		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – search the top 5 cards of your conflict deck for an attachment and put it into play attached to a character you control. Shuffle.
	Henshin Mysteries		5	Interrupt: During a conflict at this province, if a player would claim the contest ring – return it to the unclaimed ring pool instead.
	Gateway to Meido		3	Cannot be a stronghold province. During a conflict at this province, you may play characters from your dynasty discard pile into the conflict as if they were in your hand.
	Entrenched Position		5	This province gets +5 strength during conflicts.
	Fruitful Crossroads		4	Draft format only Interrupt: When this province is broken, select one – either ready your stronghold and place 1 honor token on it, or discard any number of cards from your hand to gain that much fate.
	Frostbitten Crossing		4	Air role only. Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a participating character – discard each attachment on that character.
	Fortified Assembly		3	Cannot be a stronghold province. This province gets +2 strength for each honor token on it. Reaction: After an attack is declared against this province – place 1 honor token on it.
	Flooded Waste		2	Reaction: After this province is revealed – bow each attacking character.
	Festival of the Departed		4	Keeper role only. During conflicts at this province, characters cannot have their skills increased by the effects of event cards.
	Fertile Fields		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – draw 1 card.
	Feast or Famine		3	Fire role only. Interrupt: When this province is broken, choose an opponent's character – move 1 fate from that character to a character you control.
	Web of Lies		X	X is equal to twice the bid on your honor dial.