Haven't seen anyone post it, so I'll show it. Someone posted the card in my l5r WhatsApp group

At the moment this card looks quite bad maybe slightly better than way of the phoenix, it's aninterrupt so it can't even be reused with Kyuden Isawa.

I am hoping they will have some kind of pay off card for claiming all the 5 rings like the old game.

So a card like:

Interrupt: If you have the 5 different ring in your claim pool draw 4 cards.

Then it could produce an interesting deck.

Wouldn't it be good with the ring of Earth and the shugenja that's bows someone? Or with the water shugenja that unbows himself if the water ring is claimed. Or the fire ring with the katana of fire.

Yeah, I think it'd need to draw a card to replace itself to be playable. In most cases, I'd rather just have Way of the Phoenix. I suppose it's nice as we see more cards that care about having rings, like the Henshin Disciple. Not enough cards that really care about you having rings to make it worth a card though,

Prodigy of the Waves doesn't really care about having the water ring claimed because getting it claimed is mostly trivial. Even losing the water ring conflict is great because it gives you a big advantage on the second conflict. Keeping the earth ring is nice, and this lets you focus more resources on claiming it the first time, but I also don't usually keep Solemn Scholar around for more than one turn, so that has limited applications.

I think this'll be a decent card much later. Not now.

Having to take the Water ring with Prodigy is not trivial, because having to attack first with Water is very often suboptimal. Being able to unbow and attack to two better rings is big.

Now they just need to preview Isawa Tadaka and the Lion character for this pack.

3 hours ago, BayushiFugu said:

Now they just need to preview Isawa Tadaka and the Lion character for this pack.

I think the Lion got the Pony treatment with no preview yet! Haha

This is a card that will only get stronger as more cards with effects based on currently claimed rings are added. Currently the following cards are those which would gain benefit from starting with a claimed ring:

• Henshin Disciple

• Ishiken Initiate

• Solemn Scholar

• Prodigy of the Waves

• Know the World

• Katana of Fire

Not sure if worth it right now, but if any of you remember, there’s that difficult combo that let Phoenix negate the opponent the possibility of declaring any conflict by negating rings, and this card just adds to that combo. Given enough cards like this one, we could be talking about a real possibility of putting together a deck that can really screw with with your opponent by not letting them declare conflicts, or let them declare just one per round.

This is a very interesting card. At the absolute worst it’s a +1 advantage on your glory count for the favor. In a deck that relies on keeping the favor this could be a big deal. I’m already keeping an eye on this one for my pONI - Phoenix deck

It can be a pretty strong tactic to deny people their Keeper Initiate activations, or just take certain rings out of the equation that they don’t want their opponent going after their next turn. For decks that care about certain rings being claimed it’s really good.

I think this card is much better than it seems at first glance.

Also keep in mind, keeping a non-air/non-void ring "hostage" with this card makes it that much more likely to have air/void conflicts without having to commit characters that add those elements to the ring.

5 hours ago, Tabris2k said:

Not sure if worth it right now, but if any of you remember, there’s that difficult combo that let Phoenix negate the opponent the possibility of declaring any conflict by negating rings, and this card just adds to that combo. Given enough cards like this one, we could be talking about a real possibility of putting together a deck that can really screw with with your opponent by not letting them declare conflicts, or let them declare just one per round.

That makes for a very interesting control deck AND fits the theme of the clan with the rings and limiting conflicts(pacifism). I think I might work on a Phoenix deck as a secondary to my Lion one.