Stronghold

Stonghold Stats

Stronghold is a card type. Every stronghold has a bonus strength (), starting honor (), fate value (), and influence ().

Mechanics

Breaking an opponent's Stronghold is one of the three victory conditions of the game.

"At the beginning of the game, a card from the top of your dynasty deck is placed on top of each of the four province cards between your [Dynasty deck and your Conflict deck], while the fifth province hosts your stronghold.

Breaking enemy provinces moves you directly closer to victory in Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game. Though your opponents can still play new cards from their broken provinces, if you break three of your opponent’s four provinces, you will be allowed to declare conflicts against their stronghold.

A clan’s stronghold is the seat of its power, providing your supply of fate, determining your starting honor, and offering a powerful ability that can be used throughout the game. Underneath your stronghold, you’ll place a fifth province card at the beginning of the game, like the four province cards that you’ve placed between your dynasty deck and your conflict deck. Your opponent’s stronghold will be the site of a dramatic final conflict, and whether that takes the form of a military siege or a measured political negotiation is up to you. Either way, if you can break your opponent’s stronghold province (after breaking three of his other provinces), you immediately win the game."

Cards

Clan	Name	Traits					Text Box
	City of the Open Hand	City.	+1	10	+7	10	Action: If you are less honorable than an opponent, bow this stronghold and select one – either that opponent loses 1 honor, or you gain 1 honor.
	Kyūden Isawa	Library. Palace.	+1	11	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold and discard a Spell event from your hand – play a Spell event from your conflict discard pile as if it were in your hand. Remove that spell from the game.
	Shizuka Toshi	City.	+2	11	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold, choose a participating character with skill 2 or lower – bow that character.
	Shiro Shinjo	Castle.	+1	10	+6	10	Reaction: After you collect fate during the dynasty phase, choose an opponent and bow this stronghold – gain 1 fate for each faceup non-stronghold province controlled by that player.
	Shiro Nishiyama	Castle.	+3	10	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold – each defending character you control gets +1 and +1 until the end of the conflict.
	Shiro Kitsuki	Castle.	+2	10	+7	11	Reaction: After a conflict is declared, name a card – after each time your opponent plays that card during this conflict, choose an unclaimed ring and claim it as a ring, gaining all fate from it. (Unlimited.)
	Seven Stings Keep	Castle.	+2	10	+7	10	Interrupt: When you declare a conflict, choose a number greater than 0 and bow this stronghold – your opponent declares defenders for this conflict. Then declare the conflict (choosing attackers, ring, conflict type, and province). You must declare a number of attackers equal to the number you chose.
	Mountain's Anvil Castle	Castle.	+2	11	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold. Choose a participating character with 1 or more attachments on it – until the end of the conflict, that character gets +1 and +1 (+2 and +2 instead if it has 2 or more attachments on it).
	Kyūden Kakita	Palace.	+1	11	+7	9	Reaction: After a duel resolves, bow this stronghold and choose a character you control which was involved in the duel – honor that character.
	Kyūden Ikoma	Castle.	+1	13	+7	10	Reaction: After a character you control loses a conflict as an attacker, bow this strognhold. Choose a non-Champion character – bow that character.
	Closed Shell Castle	Castle.	+2	11	+7	-	Draft format only Interrupt: When the game begins, choose a clan – the stronghols gains that clan's symbol. Place 1 honor token on the stronghold. Action: Bow the stronghold an remove an honor token from it. Choose a character – ready that character.
	Kyūden Hida	Castle.	+2	11	+7	10	Action: During the dynasty phase, bow this stronghold – look at the top three cards of your dynasty deck. You may play a character from among those cards as if it were in your provinces. Discard the rest.
	Kyūden Bayushi	Palace.	+2	9	+7	9	Action: Bow this stronghold and choose a dishonored character you control – ready that character. If you have 6 or fewer honor, that character gets +1 and +1 until the end of the phase.
	Isawa Mori Seidō	Shrine.	+2	11	+7	10	Action: Bow this stronghold, choose a character – that character gets +2 glory until the end of the phase.
	Hisu Mori Toride (Unicorn Clan)	Fort.	+1	11	+7	10	Reaction: After you win a conflict with more participating characters than your opponent, bow this stronghold and sacrifice a (friendly) Cavalry character – you may declare an additional conflict this phase.
	Hisu Mori Toride (Lion Clan)	Fort.	+2	11	+7	9	Reaction: After you win a conflict by 5 or more skill, bow this stronghold and sacrifice a (friendly) Bushi character – you may declare an additional conflict this phase.
	High House of Light	Temple.	+3	11	+7	7	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold. Choose a participating Monk character you control – that character cannot be chosen as a target of an opponent's event during this conflict. If you have played 5 or more cards in this conflict, also move 1 fate from a ring to that character.
	Golden Plains Outpost	Outpost.	+0	10	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold. Choose a Cavalry character you control – move it to that conflict.
	Yōjin no Shiro	Castle.	+2	12	+7	10	Action: During a conflict, bow this stronghold – each attacking character you control gets +1 until the end of the conflict.