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.
	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.
	Market of Kaze-no-Kami		3	Reaction: After this province is revealed, choose a character that is not honored – bow that character.
	Massing at Twilight		8	Void role only. While resolving conflicts at this province, each character counts its combined and skill.
	Meditations on the Tao		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose an attacking character – remove 1 fate from 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.
	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.
	Pilgrimage		5	During conflicts at this province, cancel all ring effects. (If this province breaks, resolve ring effects as normal.)
	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.
	Raging Battleground		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed, choose a non-unique character with no fate on it – discard that character.
	Rally to the Cause		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – switch the conflict type. (The conflict retains its element.)
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Scene of the Crime		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – look at your opponent's hand.
	Magistrate Station		3	Action: Choose an honored character – ready that character.
	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.
	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.
	Shameful Display		3	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose 2 participating characters – honor one of those characters and dishonor the other.
	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.
	Teachings of the Elements		5	This province gets +1 strength for each claimed ring.
	Tears of Amaterasu		4	Keeper role only. Reaction: After this province is revealed – gain 1 fate for each attacking character.
	Temple of the Dragons		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – resolve the contested ring's effects as if you were the attacking player.
	The Art of Peace		4	Interrupt: When this province is broken – dishonor each attacking character and honor each defending character.
	The Art of War		3	Interrupt: When this province is broken – draw 3 cards.
	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.
	Untamed Steppe		6	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose another unbroken province – turn that province facedown.
	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.
	Vassal Fields		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – your opponent loses 1 fate.
	Manicured Garden		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – gain 1 fate.
	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).
	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.
	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.
	Ancestral Lands		5	This province gets +5 strength during conflicts.
	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.
	Before the Throne		5	Cannot be a stronghold province. Interrupt: When this province is broken – take 2 honor from your opponent.
	Blood of Onnotangu		3	Seeker role only. During conflicts at this province, each player cannot spend fate from his or her fate pool.
	Border Fortress		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a facedown province – reveal that province.
	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.)
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Effective Deception		4	Interrupt: When the effects of a triggered ability would initiate during a conflict at this province – cancel those effects.
	Elemental Fury		4	Reaction: After this province is revealed – switch the contested ring with an unclaimed ring. (The conflict retains its type.)
	Endless Plains		2	Reaction: After an attack is declared here, break this province. Your opponent chooses an attacking character – discard that character.
	Kiku Matsuri		4	Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a participating character controlled by each player – honor each of those characters.
	Entrenched Position		5	This province gets +5 strength during conflicts.
	Feast or Famine		3	Fire role only. Interrupt: When this province is broken, choose an opponent's character – move each fate from that character to a character you control with no fate.
	Fertile Fields		4	Action: During a conflict at this province – draw 1 card.
	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.
	Flooded Waste		2	Reaction: After this province is revealed – bow each attacking 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.
	Frostbitten Crossing		4	Air role only. Action: During a conflict at this province, choose a participating character – discard each attachment on that character.
	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.
	Guardians of the Seikitsu		5	Earth role only. Reaction: After this province is revealed – bow each character with printed cost 2 or lower.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	Web of Lies		X	X is equal to twice the bid on your honor dial.