Spoiler de Glory of the Empire
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Promos (1)
Festival of Drifting Souls (Event) (Pre-release Promo) Festival. Until your next turn begins, after the first time each turn a player attaches a card from his hand, draw a card. On the day of the festival, all who have lost someone to war float a candle, hoping the souls of the loved ones can find their way to the next life in peace.
Strongholds (3)
City of Tears (F) (Phoenix) 6PS / 4GP / 6SH. Equipping Spells is a Battle/Open action for you. After the resolution of an Equip Battle action you took, you may take an additional Battle action from the Spell it attached. Once a City of Blood, now rebuilt grander than ever. Truly, rebirth is the path of the Phoenix.
Seven Fold Palace (F) (Crane) 6PS / 4G / 6SH. Political. Open: Even if this card is bowed, target your Personality with 1 or higher Personal Honor: Take the Imperial Favor. As delicate and majestic as origami, containing the true strength of the Crane within.
Shattered Peaks Castle (F) (Crab) 8PS / 4G / 3SH. Battle/Open: Even if this card is bowed: Straighten your target unit. A Shadowlands assault shattered the mountain around it, but the Crab never faltered.
Personalities
Crab (7)
Hida Hikita (R)
5F / 3C
0HR / 8G / 2PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Commander. Battle: Bow your target Follower: Reduce the Force of a target enemy card to 0. “Too old? You insolent child. I have seen entire armies ground to dust, and demons the size of cities brought to ruin. This Army of Fire is nothing, and I will see them scattered on the winds like ash.”
Hida Rohitsu (C)
4F / 3C
0HR / 7G / 1PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Scout. Battle: Bow Rohitsu unless you targeted the current battlefield’s province with a Recon action this turn: A target card in the enemy army may not use its base abilities. “I have fought in the mountains all my life. What does it matter which mountains, and what fools I kill?”
Hida Tatsuma (R)
5F / 3C
0HR / 8G / 3PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Hero. Tatsuma has a Force bonus equal to his Personal Honor while he is the only Personality in an army. “Long has the Wall been silent, but it will not be so forever. When the demons return, they shall find me waiting.”
Hida Togeriso (U)
3F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 2PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Lorekeeper. Limited: Showa random card in another player’s hand. Togeriso gains a Force bonus equal to its Focus Value. “I would prefer a simple conversation, but if you insist, we can do battle first. Then I will talk to your unconscious body.” Paul Thorgrimson • MageCon 2008 Charity Auction
Hida Yumiya (U)
7F / 2C
-HR / 10G / 0PH
Crab Clan • Shadowlands • Berserker • Damned. Personalities and Followers without Shadowlands have -1F while opposing Yumiya. “Let the war end. I wish to return to the Wall. I am not worthy to fight samurai, no teven Crane.”
Kaiu Kyoka (F)
6F / 3C
0HR / 9G / 2PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Commander • Unique. Battle: Bow or move home your target Crab Clan Personality: Straighten your target unit. “We are to hold the line, but advance no further. Lord Kuon will arrive within two days’ time.”
Kuni Sagara (C)
3F / 3C
-HR / 6G / 0PH
Crab Clan • Shugenja. Sagara attaches Maho Spells paying 1 less Gold. “I am not traitor, nor am I a fool. I simply prefer to keep my options open. Who knows what circumstances the future holds?”
Crane (7)
Daidoji Murata (U)
2F / 3C
0HR / 6G / 2PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Scout. Recon Open: Target two provinces. During battles at their battlefields, actions may not be taken before the Defender’s first chance to take a Battle action or pass. “Sleep well, my lady. There will be no treachery tonight. This I swear.”
Doji Hariya (R)
3F / 4C
6HR / 7G / 4PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Artisan • Kensai. Limited: Discard a card: Create a +2F Weapon and attach it to Hariya. “I will not limit myself to the duel. I will master all aspects of the blade, and in doing so, I will master myself.”
Doji Odaka (F)
0F / 2C
6HR / 7G / 4PH
Crane Clan • Courtier • Imperial • Unique. Political Open: Discard the Imperial Favor: Bow a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than Odaka. “Before you begin, Lord Kuon,” Domotai interrupted, “my magistrates have discovered something relevant that may interest you.”
Doji Numata (C)
3F / 4C
6HR / 8G / 3PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Magistrate • Governor. Battle: Bow a target enemy dishonorable Personality. Increase or decrease the strength of this battlefield’s province by Numata’s Personal Honor. “I oversee taxes, regulate merchants, and appoint city guards. My duty is not glorious, but I serve the Emperor as much as any other samurai.”
Daidoji Reita (R)
2F / 3C
6HR / 7G / 3PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Scout. Recon Open: Target your province. Defending Personalities have +1F while at its battlefield. Your other provinces gain +2 Strength. “Their deaths are a mercy, but I will enjoy them nevertheless.”
Kakita Omori (C)
1F / 2G
6HR / 4G / 3PH
Crane Clan • Artisan. “A Lion or Crab would say I have wasted my life in pursuit of art. I say they have wasted theirs spilling blood. My art will live on, but their glory ends with death.”
Kakita Takashima (U)
2F / 4C
6HR / 8G / 3PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Duelist. Takashima has +1C during the resolution of any duel he is in. “We may be at peace in the morning, my Hida friend, but I find I am not a morning person.”
Dragon (7)
Kitsuki Kenichi (C)
3F / 4C
5HR / 7G / 3PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Magistrate. Open: A target dishonorable Personality has a minimum Chi of 1. Give him -2F/-2C. “It is likely the reinforcements will not be sufficient,” he said. “We must be prepared for the Northern Watchtowers to fall, my lady.”
Kitsuki Tsuboko (R)
4F / 3C
4HR / 7G / 2PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Duelist • Justicar. Reaction: Before Focus Effects resolve in a duel involving Tsuboko: All Focus Effects in that duel are negated. “Fusami’s students are among our most dangerous soldiers,” Iweko said. “See to it she is given only the finest warriors to train.” Esta carta viene con el símbolo de infrecuente, pero sale en los slots de las raras tanto en mazos como en los sobres, por lo que la considero rara.
Mirumoto Ishino (R)
4F / 3C
0HR / 7G / 4PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Kensai. Battle: Discard a card from your hand: Reduce a target enemy Personality’s Force by the discarded card’s Focus Value. Draw a card. If you discarded a Weapon, bow the target. “He has all of his cousin’s rage, and none of Kenzo’s restraint.” –Mirumoto Kei
Mirumoto Kuroki (C)
2F / 3C
5HR / 5G / 2PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Cavalry. Battle: Bow Kuroki: Ranged 3 Attack. “The Dragon cavalry appeared from nowhere, raining death down upon the flaming legion and keeping well out of reach. In moments, the ground was covered in smoldering corpses.”
Mirumoto Takehiro (U)
2F / 4C
2HR / 7G / 2PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Tactician. Battle: Target an enemy Personality. Neither Takehiro nor the targeted Personality may perform actions until this battle ends. The Dragon encampment burst into flames without warning. “Infiltrators!” the commander shouted. “Fall back!”
Togashi Nakahara (R)
5F / 3C
0HR / 9G / 2PH
Dragon Clan • Monk • Tattooed • Unique. Battle: Look at the top 5 cards of your Fate Deck. Show one of them that is a Kiho or Tattoo card with a Battle ability. Put it in your hand. Put the remaining cards back on top of the deck in any order. You may take an additional action to play the shown card for one of its Battle abilities. “I do not fear the fire’s embrace.”
Togashi Osawa (U)
4F / 3C
3HR / 7G / 1PH
Dragon Clan • Monk • Tattooed. Open: Even if Osawa is bowed: Straighten him. “My Champion’s orders are clear, Mantis,” Osawa said sadly. “Each time one of your clan enters our lands without permission, we will burn one of your cities to the ground.”
Lion (7)
Akodo Hiroshi (U)
2F / 3C
7HR / 6G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Tactician • Gunso. Battle: Attach your target discarded Follower to a target Personality in Hiroshi’s army. “I need war to fuel my Lion’s heart. If it is barbarians I must kill for honor and glory, so be it.”
Akodo Yanagi (C)
4F / 3C
7HR / 7G / 2PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Hero. Battle: If the enemy side has more units than your side at this battlefield: Give Yanagi +5F. A woman of uncommon skill and daring, she has survived countless battles and turned defeat into victory. Among the rank and file of the Lion, she is a legend.
Ikoma Hagio (R)
3F / 3C
7HR / 6G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai. Hagio has +1F while attacking. Reaction: Even if Hagio is bowed, before battle resolution, if he is at the current battlefield: Straighten him. “Korin’s second son is little like his father, quick-tempered and unapologetic, but he is a Lion to his core. He will serve the clan well.” –Akodo Shigetoshi
Ikoma Tomoi (R)
4F / 3C
7HR / 7G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Warden • Unique. Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield: Move your target Personality there. You may discard a Bushido Virtue card; if you do, straighten him. “News from the Emperor’s court! We are to secure our northern border while the Akodo and Matsu begin preparing to march!”
Matsu Ishigaki (C)
2F / 3C
5HR / 5G / 2PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Commander. “Supplies and relief for the Unicorn? A likely story. The Empire will not tolerate your meddling any longer, Phoenix.”
Matsu Misato (R)
3F / 3C
10HR / 6G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Paragon. Battle: Bow Misato: Ranged 3 Attack with +1 strength for every 10 points of Family Honor you have. “I prefer to face my foes with steel, but if they are too cowardly to approach, then they are unworthy to die on my blade.”
Matsu Naomasa (U)
3F / 4C
7HR / 7G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Paragon. Reaction: After one of your Bushido Virtue actions targets Naomasa: Gain 2 Honor. “Be cautious, Scorpion,” she warned. “You may be the Emperor’s hosts, but your actions are not without consequence.”
Mantis (7)
Kitsune Ando (U)
3F / 3C
-HR / 6G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Scout. Battle: If the current battlefield was targeted by a Recon action this turn: Destroy a target enemy attachment. “The time for games has ended,” Saburo warned. “It comes for the prophet now, and only we can stop it.”
Moshi Awako (R)
3F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Thunder • Shugenja • Fist of Osano Wo. Ranged Attacks from Thunder actions Awako performs may target Personalities with attached Followers. Battle: Ranged 2 Attack. “We carry the favor of Thunder. Stand aside or face the storm’s wrath.”
Moshi Nakata (R)
5F / 3C
0HR / 8G / 3PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Naval • Commander • Unique. While Nakata is at the current battlefield, Ranged Attacks from your actions have +1 strength. “Lord Naizen commands all trade north of Rokugan halted immediately. Something in the northern mountains is amiss.”
Sakarah (C)
2F / 2C
-HR / 4G / 1PH
Mantis Clan • Nohuman • Ningyo • Naval. “You humans call it Thunder. We call it an avatar of the Spawn-Father. Names mean nothing. Its power must be recognized, however.”
Tsuruchi Onaka (C)
2F / 4C
0HR / 7G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Magistrate • Accuser. Will not be controlled by a Scorpion Clan player. Open: Bow Onaka: Dishonor a target honorable Personality with lower Personal Honor than Onaka’s Chi. Rehonor the Personality before the end of this turn. “Tell me all you know of Noritoshi and Jimen.”
Yoritomo Kisho (U)
4F / 3C
0HR / 8G / 1PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Gunso. Battle: Ranged 3 Attack with +1 strength for each Follower in Kisho’s army. “It is not enough to best your enemy in battle. He must be humiliated if he is truly to be defeated.”
Yoritomo Sunagawa (R)
4F / 3C
2HR / 8G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Naval • Tactician • Commander. Battle: Bow your target Follower: Ranged Attack with strength equal to the Follower’s Force +2. “You pirates dare raid a Mantis ship? My ship? You must all be mad!”
Phoenix (7)
Asako Kanta (U)
0F / 2C
5HR / 5G / 2PH
Phoenix Clan • Courtier. Political Open: Straighten a target Temple. “The Phoenix have little need of assistance, my lords, but if you wish to defend the sacred temples that are open to all, then surely we will not stand in your way.”
Asako Serizawa (R)
2F / 4G
6HR / 7G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Void • Shugenja • Inquisitor • Magistrate. Open: Bow Serizawa: Give –4F to a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than Serizawa’s Chi. “Perhaps we should investigate the possible link between these barbarians and the Dark Oracle of Fire. Nokatsu’s death was but the first.”
Asako Suda (R)
4F / 3G
0HR / 7G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Void • Monk. Battle: Discard a Kiho card or Spell: Bow a target enemy card. “The Universe holds wonders we cannot begin to imagine. How can we discover its secrets if we are forever consumed by war?”
Isawa Yutako (C)
3F / 2C
4HR / 6G / 2PH
Phoenix Clan • Water • Shugenja • Cavalry. “Bring these men that have plagued our Dragon allies so badly. I will quench their flames and their passion for war, and send them rushing into the mountains from which they came.”
Shiba Ikokawa (F)
3F / 5C
6HR / 8G / 4PH
Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Duelist • Unique • Legion of Flame. Battle: Bow a target enemy Personality with lower Chi. You may discard a card; if you do, the enemy leader chooses and destroys one of the Personality’s attachments. “You bring fire? Against the Phoenix? Is this some manner of joke?”
Shiba Raiden (U)
4F / 3C
6HR / 7G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Samurai • Gunso • Yojimbo • Legion of Flame. Battle: Bow or straighten a target Personality whose Force is different from his own base Force. “Fire burns within him, yearning for freedom. His path will be a violent one, I fear.” –Isawa Ochiai
Shiba Shigenobu (C)
3F / 3C
4HR / 7G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Samurai • Imperial • Magistrate. Limited: Dishonor a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than the number of Imperial Personalities you control. If this dishonored him, gain 1 Honor. “Seppun Katsura is my sensei, and Seppun Tashime my lord. I will fail neither of them.” En los mazos sale una copia con el símbolo de infrecuente, pero es un error, la carta es común.
Scorpion (7)
Bayushi Hirose (R)
4F / 4C
0HR / 8G / 2 PH
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Magistrate. Political Battle: Bow a target dishonorable Personality. His controller loses 2 Honor. “If you possess a secret of any kind, somewhere there is a Scorpion who knows it, or who will seek it until he or you are dead.” –Moto Chen
Bayushi Ishikura (R)
4F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 1PH
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Kensai • Commander • Bitter Lies • Unique. Your other personalities with a keyword that includes “Bitter Lies” have +1F. Battle: Bow Ishikura or one of his Weapons: Destroy a target enemy Follower or Personality with lower Chi than Ishikura and without a Weapon or Armor attached. “I need no poison or stealth. You will see me coming with your eyes wide open, and still you will not be able to stop me.”
Bayushi Shigeru (R)
3F / 2C
0HR / 6G / 2PH
Scorpion Clan • Courtier • Samurai. Political Reaction: After Shigeru enters play: A target player loses 1 Honor. “An ambassador from the Badger Clan?” the courtier scoffed. “No such invitation was extended! This is a civilized court, after all.”
Shosuro Nitsu (C)
4F / 3C
-HR / 8G / 0PH
Scorpion Clan • Ninja. Battle: Give one or two target enemy Personalities one -1F Poison token each. You may move Nitsu home. “It is not a personal matter. You have simply seen things you should not have. I take no pleasure in your deaths.”
Shosuro Takagi (U)
3F / 3C
1HR / 7G / 2PH
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Magistrate • Yojimbo. Reaction: After another player’s Battle action targets a Courtier at Takagi’s location: That player loses 2 Honor. After the rash of assassinations the previous summer, the Scorpion took no chances in securing the Emperor’s protection. No inch of the castle was left unsecured.
Soshi Mayumi (C)
2F / 3C
-HR / 5G / 1PH
Scorpion Clan • Shugenja. The Scorpion protect the Emperor’s lands, as do the Lion, and his honor, as do the Crane. But they also protect his secrets, a burden no other clan could bear.
Yogo Fujitani (U)
2F / 3C
0HR / 7G / 5PH
Scorpion Clan • Nonhuman • Foxwife • Courtier. After Fujitani is destroyed: Lose 5 Honor. “Time spent among your people changed my sister forever, and I must know why. They called her Snowflake.”
Spider (7)
Daigotsu Buroki (R)
5F / 2C
-HR / 8G / 1PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Samurai • Paragon • Dark Stone. After Buroki enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Fear Battle: Target a unit. Bow each Follower in it with 3 or lower Force. You may discard a Dark Virtue card; if you do so, destroy all bowed Followers in the unit. “Some have not lost their talent for brutality.” –Michio
Daigotsu Churo (C)
4F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Undead • Samurai. After Buroki enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Reaction: After an action targets Churo: Either negate the action’s effects that bow Churo, or negate the action’s effects that move Churo home. “I am no mindless beast, but I shall feast on your flesh just the same.”
Daigotsu Minoko (U)
4F / 2C
-HR / 7G / 1PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Samurai • Duelist • Obsidian Claw. After Minoko enters play: Lose 3 Honor. After Minoko challenges a Personality: That Personality loses Duelist. “Steel against obsidian. Are you so sure you know the outcome already?”
Daigotsu Yuhmi (R)
6F / 3C
-HR / 9G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Samurai • Nonhuman • Infiltrator • Unique. After Yuhmi enters play: Lose 5 honor. Fear Battle: Target an enemy Follower. Bow each Follower and Personality with 4 or lower Force in its unit. Destroy the targeted Follower. “No one knows his secrets. Not even me.” –Daigotsu
Daigotsu Zenshi (R)
4F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Undead • Samurai. After Zenshi enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Battle: Give each Undead card in Zenshi’s army +1F. “Fleshless, mindless filth! Obey me! Leave nothing alive to tell the tale!”
Goju Asagi (C)
3F / 4C
-HR / 6G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Ninja • Assassin. “Unleash your beasts if you wish, Dragon,” Daigotsu said. “I fear they will have little opportunity to slay this new Emperor.”
Hongo (U)
3F / 3C
-HR / 5G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Monk • Kensai. After Buroki enters play: Lose 2 Honor. Battle: Attach a target Weapon from your hand to Hongo. “The Spider may be in hiding, but a monk may travel where he wishes, and few have the courage to question a sohei.”
Unicorn (7)
Iuchi Hotaru (R)
3F / 3C
4HR / 8G / 2PH
Unicorn Clan • Water • Shugenja • Cavalry. Hotaru has Tactician while he has a spell attached. “I will wash away the Scorpion’s sins in a wave of vengeance and purification.”
Moto Juncheng (C)
4F / 1C
-HR / 7G / 1PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry. “I fear no Scorpion, no barbarian, nor even a wrathful Emperor. I fear only a life of boredom, and I will have none of it.”
Moto Xiao (R)
5F / 2C
-HR / 9G / 1PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Commander • Unique. Followers in Xiao’s army have +1F. Battle/Open: Straighten all Followers in a target unit. “It has been far too long since I killed a man in the northern steppes. Ride, men! Ride to the mountains!”
Shinjo Ki-Chang (R)
4F / 4C
0HR / 8G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Commander. Battle: Even if Ki-Chang is not at the current battlefield, if any enemy units are there: Move your target Personality with a Follower there. “The day of our redemption is at hand, brothers. Glorious service to the new Emperor will erase all our fathers’ crimes!”
Shinjo Ming-li (U)
5F / 3C
4HR / 8G / 2PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Kensai. Battle: Bow a target enemy Personality without attachments. Destroy him if Ming-li has a Weapon and higher Force. “Young? Perhaps I am. War is my craft all the same, and one day they will remember me as a master.”
Shinjo Shinlao (C)
4F / 3C
-HR / 8G / 2PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Scout. Recon Open: Target two of another player’s provinces. Give them -1 strength. “I know the northern paths, my Khan. I have traveled them all my life.” “Very good,” Chen replied. “You will ride at the front of my armies.”
Utaku Yumiko (U)
3F / 3C
4HR / 8G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Battle Maiden. Fear Battle: Give -1F to all Personalities and Followers opposing Yumiko. “I am the sight that will usher your soul to the next world.”
Shadowlands (4)
Akaru no Oni (C)
6F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Oni • Nonhuman. After this card enters play: Lose 5 Honor. Limited: Bow a target unit with total Gold Cost less than or equal to the Gold Production of its controller’s Stronghold plus 2. “Never enter one’s lair. Burn it from without. Enter its lair and your time in this world has come to an end.” –Kuni Kiyoshi
Furu no Oni (R)
11F / 4C
-HR / 12G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni. Furu no Oni costs 1 less Gold to bring into play for each province destroyed this game. After Furu no Oni enters play: Lose 6 Honor. Battle: Bow a target card in the enemy army. “A serpent of fire and thorn, born from blackened, molten earth. An accursed beast best killed from afar.” –Hiruma Aki
Mokku (C)
3F / 1C
-HR / 3G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Goblin. After Mokku enters play: Lose 3 Honor. Fire Battle: Destroy your target Goblin: Destroy a target enemy Follower. “Who is brave enough to receive sacrament? Who strong enough to bear the pain of magic mud?”
Shukku (U)
3F / 2C
-HR / 4G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Goblin • Berserker. After Shukku enters play: Lose 3 Honor. Fear Battle: Destroy Shukku: Give –4F to a target enemy Follower or Personality without attachments. If its Force is now 0, destroy it. “Pokku very wise. As long as he let me kill more samurai, I follow him wherever he wish.”
Unaligned (4)
Kincho the Sixth (C)
2F / 2C
4HR / 3G / 1PH
Innkeeper of the House of the Blue Tanuki. Battle: Even if Kincho is home: Straighten all Followers attached to a target Commander or Tactician. “I have never seen him without a smile, save the day that merchant told him the sake shipment would be delayed. That... was unpleasant.” –Kuri the Smuggler
Malevolent Kappa (C)
3F / 3C
-HR / 4G / 1PH
Nonhuman • Kappa. This card has +2F/+1C while opposing a Samurai. “Wrecthed river spirits! More mischievous than a kitsune, and more dangerous than a goblin. I would hunt them all if they were not resilient!” –Shiba Raiden
Oishi (R)
6F / 4C
-HR / 9G / 2PH
Ronin • Samurai • Duelist • Unique. Reaction: After Oishi enters play from a province: Create a 2F/2C/2PH Ronin • Samurai Personality. Iaijutsu Battle: Discard a card: Target an enemy card without attachments. Destroy it if its Force is less than or equal to the discarded card’s Focus Value plus 1. “Be watchful, Chikara. Learn from all you see.”
Terasaka (U)
4F / 3C
-HR / 6G / 1PH
Ronin • Samurai. While there are two or more different Clan alignments among Personalities you control, Terasaka costs 1 less Gold to bring into play for each such Clan alignment. “Tell me why you would go to the trouble of filling the Legion of Two Thousand with ronin. I am not interested in joining to fulfill some hidden agenda.” En los mazos sale una copia con el símbolo de común, pero es un error, la carta es infrecuente.
Holdings (4)
House of Exotic Goods (C) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Destroy this card: Put one or more face-up cards in your provinces at the bottom of your deck (and refill the provinces). Turn all cards in your provinces face-up. “Come in, my friend! I guarantee I have something you have never seen before!” No tiene el kanji de Celestial Edition, por lo que no será legal en ese entorno.
Revered Sensei (U) Coste: 2. Retainer • Singular. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Bow this card: Your target Samurai Personality has +3F while he is opposed this turn. To sit at the feet of an elder sensei is an honor most young samurai will never know.
Traveling Peddler (R) Coste: 2. Singular. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Bow this card and pay 3 Gold: Draw a card. “Yes, yes, I have just what you need. Just... just let me catch my breath a moment... I have it right here.”
War Encampment (C) Coste: 2. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold, or 4 Gold when paying to bring an Item or Spell into play from your hand. “There is no limit to what can be achieved when the Emperor’s wishes are made clear to his people.” –Kitsu Dejiko, Commander of the First Imperial Legion
Events (5)
Night of the Blood Moon (U) After each resolution of a Maho action this turn, straighten a Personality who performed it. Once per winter, the Obsidian Dragon pays homage to its sinister father. On that night, the blood cultists seek sacrifice.
The Karmic Cycle (U) Starting with you, each player may discard his hand, then draw a number of cards equal to the number of cards he discarded. “There is a time of suffering that all must endure. Our time has passed, and we have survived. We must now rebuild.” –Moto Chen
Winter’s Embrace (R) Winter. Until your second turn from now begins, all provinces have +3 strength. “Some call it a curse, others a blessing. It traps one in one’s home, and yet protects one’s home from all who would attack.” –Asako Bairei
Winter Solstice (R) Winter. Until your next turn begins, your Holdings now in play produce one additional Gold when they bow to produce Gold. “War never truly stops trade. During the winter months, its continuation is a bit more obvious.” –Naoharu
Word of Heaven (U) Until your second turn from now begins, Reactions have the additional cost, “Bow one of your Personalities or Followers.” “The Emperor’s word is the Word of Heaven, too pure to be heard by the masses.”
Regions (3)
Open Shore Market (C) Market. Battle/Open: Bow this card: Attach a target attachment from your hand to your target Personality. “Anything you want can be found for a price. If time is of the essence, however, you might consider bringing all the koku you can muster.” –Yoritomo Buntaro
Public Garden (R) This card does not count against the number of Regions a province can attach. Battle: Move home your target unit at this province’s battlefield: Give this province +3 strength. “This new Empire shall exist as more than a mere battlefield.” –Miya Shoin
Temple of Tsukune (U) Temple. After a Personality enters play from this province: Bow him. Reaction: After a non-Personality card (including this card) enters play from this province: Refill this province face-up. The Order of Rebirth is devoted to the Fortune Tsukune, and they offer their aid to all who wish to better themselves.
Actions (57)
A Game of Sadane (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Political. Battle: Dishonor your target unbowed Personality: Dishonor a target Personality opposing him. After the next resolution of an action that was performed by a dishonorable Personality at this battlefield, bow that Personality. “Your kimono is most lovely. My grandmother had one like it when she was your age, I believe.”
An Imperial Marriage (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Imperial • Political. Limited: Target your unbowed Courtier: A target Personality permanently gains Imperial and the ability, “Limited: Take the Imperial Favor.” “An Otomo, Miya, or Seppun has no greater value than as a spouse.” –Bayushi Paneki
A Rival Eliminated (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Battle: Give your target Duelist +2F, and an additional +3F if he is opposed. “Ensure that our commanders are in place to fulfil the Emperor’s orders. No others.” –Bayushi Paneki
Buoyed by the Kami (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Kiho • Water. Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield, target your unbowed Monk or Shugenja: Move him there. If he has the Water keyword, you may target another of your units and move it there. If it moved, straighten it. “There is no more glorious experience in life!”
Burned Village (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Terrain. Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, discard all cards in or attached to this battlefield’s province. “They leave nothing intact,” Satsu said, his eyes ablaze. “They are monsters, and they will suffer a monster’s death.”
Certain Death (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Open: Pay Gold equal to the attachment’s Gold Cost minus 3: Destroy another player’s target attachment. “This could be my masterpiece. If the ogres will not bend their knee, then I will shape them into something that will.” –Omoni
Changing Paths (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Kiho. Battle/Open: Target your unbowed Shugenja or Monk: Name a Ring. The next time this turn you trigger its base trait that would put it into play from your hand, search your discard pile, then Fate deck, for that Ring. Show it. Put it into your hand. (You then have a chance to play it by its own text.) “Put down your weapons and search your hearts, brothers.”
Clan Rivalries (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Battle: Bow your target Personality: Straighten another target Personality with lower Chi. If the targeted Personalities share no Clan alignments, you may target and straighten a third Personality. “I said stand aside, Crane! The glory of this battle will be mine and mine alone!”
Dangerous Reconnaissance (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Recon. Limited: Target your unbowed Scout: Target a province. Draw a card. During your End Phase this turn, draw an additional card if you destroyed the targeted province in battle resolution. “We must find a way to break the Yobanjin line and find the Oracle’s lair. Slay the general, and the army crumbles.”
Deadly Orders (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Battle: Target your Commander: Give your target Follower a Force bonus equal to twice its current Force. After this battle’s resolution, destroy the Follower. “It does not matter what the creature is! We must destroy it! That is all that matters!”
Desperation Strikes (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Battle: Your opposed non-Yojimbo Personalities at the current battlefield each gain a Force bonus equal to the number of your Yojimbo Personalities there. The Yasuki War has left many cold, homeless, and starving. Not all are willing to go quietly into the next life.
Discreet Retreat (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Political. Battle: Move your target Courtier home: Give a target Personality +4F or -4F. “Lady Domotai bid me bring her word to you at the front, commander. I will await your convenience back at the encampment.”
Endless Road (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Terrain. Battle: After the resolution of any action that moved one or more units, straighten them. The Emperor’s first winter was an exceptionally mild one. Many took it as a fortuitous omen, and a sign of a peaceful reign. They could not have known what was to come.
Eradicate All Doubt (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle: Straighten a target bowed Personality, and target another Personality in the same army. If this straightened the bowed Personality, reduce the other Personality’s Force to 0. “Sureness is strength. Certainty of purpose is assurance of victory.”
Evenly Matched (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Focus Effect: Before this duel’s resolution, raise the Focus Value of each of your focused cards to 3. Battle: Target your opposed Samurai: Before this battle’s resolution, raise his Force to 6. “The most difficult problems can strain even the greatest alliance. Often it is best to simply eliminate the problem at hand, that the alliance might flourish.” –Bayushi Eisaku
First-Hand Account (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Reaction: After battle resolution, if you destroyed any enemy units or a province in that resolution: Give each Personality and Follower in your army a +1F Victory token. “Yes, I spent two seasons stationed in the Dragon lands, near the northern border. Tell Shigetoshi-sama that my formal recommendation for troop placement is as follows...”
Fluid Formation (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Battle: Target your Tactician: Target one or more of your Followers. Straighten each targeted Follower. You may transfer any number of the targeted Followers to any of your Personalities in your current army. “Let us see how these barbarians respond to the full might of the Lion!” –Akodo Shigetoshi
Games of Court (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Political • Unique. Limited: Each player chooses a card in his hand. Show all chosen cards. If the base Focus Value of a player’s card is different from each other chosen card’s base Focus Value, he gains Honor equal to his card’s Focus Value; otherwise, he loses Honor equal to his card’s Focus Value. “You look so lovely today!”
Half-Breath Strike (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Iaijutsu. Reaction: After the resolution of another player’s action that targeted your Duelist during a battle, show another Iaijutsu card in your hand: Target an enemy Personality with 3C or lower at the current battlefield. His controller may destroy him. If he is not destroyed, gain 3 Honor. “He was alive when I began the breath, and with his ancestors when it was finished.”
Hasty Exit (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Ninja. Battle: Move one or more target unbowed Ninja Personalities with no non-Ninja Followers from the current battlefield to another battlefield. “Do not tarry when your task is complete,” the Shadow Dragon hissed. “I do so hate dawdling.”
Honor & Steel (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Bushido Virtue. Battle: Give your target Paragon +1F for each Bushido Virtue in your discard pile. You may target an enemy Personality and give him –1F for each Dark Virtue in his controller’s discard pile. Gain 1 Honor. “Our time will come, ‘Champion.’ But only once this threat has been resolved.” –Kakita Noritoshi
Honor the Ancestors (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Political. Battle: Move home a target enemy Personality with Force lower than or equal to the number of your honorably dead Personalities. If he moved, bow him and gain 2 Honor. “This will be a battle unlike any the Lion have ever known. Guide us, Lady Matsu. Let us act in your name.” –Matsu Kenji
I Carry Two Blades! (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Reaction: After one of your Weapons is destroyed, target a non-Unique Weapon in your hand or discard pile: Attach it to your target Personality, paying 4 less Gold. “Unfortunately for you, my last opponent had no more need of his when we were finished!”
Imperial Decree (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Political • Imperial. Battle: You may discard the Imperial Favor: Move a target enemy Personality home. If you paid this action’s optional cost, gain 2 Honor. “The first formal decree of the Emperor is this; all wars between the Great Clans will end within one week, and an accord will be submitted to the Imperial Palace.”
Imperial Intercession (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Imperial • Political. Battle: Bow your target Courtier at any location, and discard the Imperial Favor unless he is Imperial: Bow a target attacking Personality. Straighten a target defending Personality. “Stop! Stop this! It solves nothing!”
Incredible Resilience (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Unique. Reaction: After the resolution of an enemy player’s Battle action that targeted one of your Personalities: The player chooses and bows one of his unbowed Personalities at the current battlefield. “If these are the best that can be sent against me, I scarely see the point.”
Inexplicable Challenge (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Political. Battle: Target your Courtier at any location: Bow a target enemy card without attachments. Choose a player, who either gains or loses 2 Honor. “Here Bushi! If you must take a life, then take mine if it will quench your bloodlust!”
Kami Unleashed (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Kami • Tattoo. Battle: Target your unbowed Personality, and bow him unless he is Tattooed: Ranged Attack with strength equal to your Personality’s Force. “We have faced these flaming madmen before, but an entire army? That shall be a welcome challenge!” –Togashi Hogai
Low Stance (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Focus Effect: Before this duel’s resolution, negate all bonuses to each focused card’s Focus Value. Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai Personality: Target an enemy Personality. After this Combat Segment ends, reduce his Force to 0. “Your accusations will amount to nothing if they go unheard.”
Magistrate’s Accusation (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle: Target your unbowed Magistrate Personality: Bow a target enemy Personality with lower Personal Honor than your Magistrate’s Chi. The enemy leader loses 2 Honor. “The Kitsuki are a most troublesome ‘ally’ to endure,” Jimen said. “Perhaps something could be done.”
Mounting a Defense (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Limited: Target your Commander Personality: Show the top 4cards of your Dynasty deck. Discard a card from one of your provinces and refill it face-up with one of the shown cards. Put the remaining shown cards on the bottom of your deck in any order. “The Emperor’s lands will not be invaded. Not while we Lion draw breath.” –Akodo Shigetoshi
Ogre Savagery (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 0. Fear. Battle: Target your unbowed Nonhuman Shadowlands Personality: Bow a target enemy Personality. “Do you think me some mindless beast? Some slavering demon from the pit? You should be so fortunate, humans!”
Paths of Honor & Glory (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Bushido Virtue • Dark Virtue. Open: Straighten a target Samurai. Battle: Bow a target Samurai without attachments. “Two paths exist, one light and one dark. The light path has ever been the greater, but the dark path gains new adherents every day.” –Asahina Hira
Phantom Blade Kata (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Kata • Spirit. Limited: Put this card into play in your home. Discard any other Kata cards you control. While this card is in play, you have the ability, “Spirit Limited: Discard a card: Create a +2F Spirit • Weapon Item and attach it to your target Personality.” “Guide my hand, mother,” the warrior whispered.
Power Corrupting (R) Coste: 4; Focus: 2. Kiho • Maho. Open: Target your unbowed Shugenja and destroy another of your target Personalities: Create a 7F/4C Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni Personality. Lose 3 Honor. Your Shugenja permanently gains Shadowlands. “We failed to gain the throne, perhaps, but we gained much all the same.” –Chuda Mishime
Pragmatism (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Battle: Target your unbowed dishonorable Samurai Personality: Bow a target enemy card. You may move its unit home. Lose 5 Honor. “I had no need to kill you. You were simply in the way. In the next life, do not be so foolish.”
Raising Heaven’s Banner (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Terrain. Battle: Your opposed Personalities and Followers have +2F while you have two or more different Clan alignments among Personalities in your army. “The Empire stands threatened,” the Emperor said. “Who among my people shall defend it?”
Reinforced Border (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Focus Effect: Put a Ring in your discard pile into your hand. Battle: Move your target Samurai Personality to a battlefield with one or more enemy units. Straighten his unit if he moved into a defending army. “We no longer require the intervention of others.” –Togashi Satsu
Riding the Clouds (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Air • Kiho. Battle/Open: Target your Monk: Straighten him. He does not contribute Force during battle resolutions this turn. “How can you bring word to the general through such resistance?” The monk laughed. “It is not so difficult!”
Selfless Devotion (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Open: Target your Shugenja Personality: After the next time this turn he assigns, create a 2F/2C/2PH Samurai • Yojimbo Personality at his battlefield. Remove the Yojimbo from the game before the end of this turn. “Let the barbarians come. Whether they burn or not, they will never touch you, my lord.”
Setting Sun Strike (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Heroic. Reaction: After another player’s action targets your Hero Personality during a Combat Segment: Give the Hero +3F. Straighten him before this battle’s resolution. “A man with no fear of death is a man whom death fears.” –Tao of Shinsei
Shisa Infestation (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Unique. Open: Permanently increase or decrease the strength of all provinces by 1. Shisa are mischievous, but not evil. They can either serve as guardians, or vandals, and can change their affiliation multiple times in the span of an afternoon.
Siege Tactics (C) Coste: 0; Focus:2. Siege. Battle: Give your target opposed Personality +1F for each province that has been destroyed this game. Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield: Move your target Personality at another battlefield to the current battlefield. “The Emperor commands peace,” Kuon said. “It is peace the Crab shall deliver.”
Spin the Karmic Wheel (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Kiho. Reaction: After an action targets one of your Personalities, target your Monk: The action’s effects that would destroy your Personality shuffle him into your Dynasty deck instead. “Perhaps you will find victory in your next life.”
Split the Reed (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Battle: Target your Kensai Personality: Destroy a target enemy attachment. If your Kensai now has a Weapon attached, you may take an additional Battle action. “Yes, I desire peace. So much so that I would kill to achieve it, if need be.”
Strength of the Dead (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Maho • Kiho. Battle: Target your unbowed Monk or Shugenja: He gains a Force bonus equal to the Force of a target dead Personality. Lose 2 Honor. “The wanyudo is a reincarnated tyrant, a madman who must inflict pain and death even after his own life has ended.” –Kuni Kiyoshi
Subtle Corruption (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Limited: Target a face-up Personality in your province. Reduce any Honor loss from his card for entering play by 4. Fear Battle: Bow all Followers with a Force of 4 or lower in a target unit. “No, my lord. We found nothing of any consequence within the Shinomen Mori. The reports were in error.”
The Call of Battle (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Thunder. Open: Target your Personality: You may assign him even if he is bowed. After the next time this turn he assigns, straighten his unit. “Tomorrow there may be peace, but that does not matter. What matters now is that my lord has need of my blade.”
The Sea’s Lightning (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Thunder. Battle: Target your opposed Naval Personality: This battle’s resolution does not bow your Personalities. “It seems your papers are not in order, my friends! I am afraid we must confiscate your cargo to spare you the dishonor of transporting it illegally!”
Undone by Truth (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Political. Limited: Bow your target Magistrate: Dishonor a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than your Magistrate’s Chi. “Innocent? I have testimony from three different sources confirming my allegations. Your malfeasance is at an end!”
Unexpected Arrival (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield: Target a Personality in one of your provinces. Bring him into play at the current battlefield, paying 2 less Gold and ignoring his Honor Requirement. “Whether in court or on the battlefield, the Scorpion rarely attack in an expected manner.” –Akodo’s Leadership
Unexplained Illness (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Ninja. Battle/Open: Bow a target Personality with one or more Poison tokens. “Any unexplained illness is always the start of a new plague or a case of poisoning. Usually they blame the Scorpion or the Shadowlands. Sometimes both.” –Seppun Katsura
Unpredictable Strategy (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Battle: Target a unit, and another unit controlled by the same player at any other location. Switch the two units’ locations. Straighten them if they moved. “The ones you are looking for are not here, Scorpion. I thought we might resolve this matter ourselves.”
Unsavory Practices (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. Limited: Target your Artisan Personality: Your target Weapon permanently gains the ability, “Battle: Bow this card: Destroy a target card in the enemy army with a Gold Cost of 6 or lower and no attachments.” Some still cling to the old means of testing a new blade, means many find barbaric and outdated.
Unworthy Rivals (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 4. Battle: Target your Personality: Target an enemy Personality with lower Force, lower Chi, and lower Personal Honor. Bow his unit. Until the turn ends, negate the straightening of any cards now in that unit. “This will not do at all. Deal with it immediately.” –Shosuro Jimen
Word of Fire (R) Coste: 0; Focus: 2. Kiho • Fire. Battle: Target your unbowed Monk or Shugenja Personality: Reduce a target enemy card’s Force by your Personality’s Chi. If your Personality has the Fire keyword, bow the targeted enemy card. “It is possible, my Emperor, that this Army of Fire may have advance agents already within the Empire,” the Badger ambassador said grimly.
Wrath of the Elements (C) Coste: 0; Focus: 1. Battle: Bow one of your Spells in your current army: Ranged 4 Attack that may target a Personality with attached followers. “If even a Dark Oracle imagines that the Phoenix will be easily defeated, then even the pawns of Jigoku will learn something this day.” –Isawa Mizuhiko
Spells (7)
Might of the Shadowlands (U) Coste: 1; Focus: 3. Maho • Singular. Battle: Even if this card is not at the current battlefield: Target one or more Shadowlands cards at the current battlefield. Give each target +1F, or +2F if it is Undead. Lose 3 Honor. Fire coursed over the ranks of the dead, but they only grew stronger from it.
Piercing the Heavens (U) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Air. Limited: Bow this Spell: Discard a card from one of your provinces, refilling the province face-up. “Throughout the Empire, shrines and temples swelled with attendants. Proof that the Heavens favored those who were worthy inspired tens of thousands to seek their blessings.”
Scouring Flood (C) Coste: 2; Focus: 3. Water. This Personality has +2 Force. Battle: Bow this card: Move a target defending Personality home. “A threat from the north, you say? An Army of Fire?” Bairei frowned. “I fear it sounds familiar.”
Seeking the Ancestors (U) Coste: 3; Focus: 2. Void. Limited: Bow this Shugenja, or bow this Spell if this Shugenja has the Void keyword, and discard a face-up card from one of your provinces: Show the top card of your Fate deck. Put it in your hand if its Focus Value is lower than this Shugenja’s Chi. Not only the Lion consult their ancestors.
Servitors of Stone (U) Coste 0; Focus: 3. Earth. Battle: Bow this card: Straighten a target card in this Shugenja’s army. “They free one from menial tasks, that one might more fully concentrate on matters of greater importance. Including courtship… or war.” –Isawa Emori
The Wind’s Favor (R) Coste: 4; Focus: 4. Air. Open: Bow this Shugenja: Target a Personality. After the next time this turn he assigns to attack you, gain 2 Honor and straighten this Shugenja. “Turn your blade away, samurai. You cannot win the day. The kami will not permit it.”
Thunder’s Favor (U) Coste: 3; Focus: 2. Thunder. Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 4 Attack, or Ranged 6 Attack if this Shugenja has the Thunder keyword. “I have heard rumors about the Mantis shugenja,” Daigo said. “I want facts, not uncertainties.”
Items (8)
Armor of the Heavens (R) Coste: 4; Focus: 4. +3F / +0C. Armor • Imperial. Political Reaction: After another player targets this Personality with an action: Either gain 2 Honor, or have the other player lose 2 Honor. “It was crafted for the Emperor by the Fortune of Steel himself. Surely no more perfect suit of armor has ever existed in the mortal realm.” –Miya Shoin
Armor of the Ryu (R) Coste: 4; Focus: 4. +3F / +0C Armor • Unique. This Personality has Cavalry. Battle: If any enemy units are at the current battlefield: Move this Personality home or to the current battlefield. A new and divine dynasty has returned the favor of the Heavens to mankind. Those fortunate enough to receive their blessings are changed forever by it.
Balanced Yari (C) Coste: 3;Focus: 2. +1F / +1C. Weapon. Battle resolution does not bow cards in this unit. “Most samurai favor the katana, but there are a multitude of weapons to choose from. Some offer unique advantages often overlooked.” –Shiba Tsukimi
Chrysanthemum Blossom (C) Coste: 1; Focus: 4. +0F / +0C. Imperial. Reaction: After this Personality assigns: Give him a +1F token and gain 1 Honor. “It is the Emperor’s symbol and a popular gift between young lovers. I fear this war in the north will deflower every garden in the Empire.” –Doji Domotai
Five Harmonies Blend (U) Coste: 0; Focus: 3. +0F / +0C. Battle: Destroy this card: Straighten this Personality. The greatest artisans, most skilled courtiers, most influential merchants, and a multitude of others assembled in the Scorpion lands hoping to gain the Emperor’s notice.
Fubatsu No-Dachi (R) Coste: 6; Focus: 4. +4F / +1C Weapon • Unique. Battle: Bow this card: Destroy a target card in the enemy army without attachments and with a Gold Cost of 6 or less. “This youngster is making quite a name for himself. Where did this sudden explosion of skill come from, I wonder?” –Kaiu Genji
Layered Plates (R) Coste: 7; Focus: 3. +5F / +0C. Armor. Negate effects that move this unit to a battlefield. Reaction: Before this Personality is destroyed, destroy this card: Negate that destruction of the Personality. “Highly effective in protecting the warrior beneath, but very limiting in terms of movement and reaction speed. A necessary trade-off, from time to time.” –Daidoji Kikaze
Oyumi (R) Coste: 3; Focus: 3. +2F / +0C Weapon. Battle: Ranged 3 Attack. Battle: Discard this card from your hand and pay 3 Gold: Ranged 3 Attack. “A disgusting weapon, used only by peasants and bandits. A true samurai is not tempted by such toys.” –Akodo Shigetoshi
Followers (8)
Cavalry Officer (C)
3F / 0C
0HR / 5G
Cavalry. Reaction: After this card enters play: Create a 1F Cavalry Follower and attach it to a target Personality without Followers. “The left flank, my lord. It needs cavalry reinforcement immediately or it will break.”
Focus: 1
Death Ravagers (U)
5F / 0C
0HR / 4G
Oni • Shadowlands. Will only attach to an Oni. After this card enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Before the end of your End Phase, if this unit was not in an attacking army this turn: Destroy this card. “Lesser oni spawn that hunt in packs. Clever demons are the worst kind.” –Hiruma Todori
Focus: 0
Imperial Elite Guard (C)
4F / 0C
2HR / 7G
Imperial. Battle: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments. “Too many times in history has our family failed,” Seppun Katsura told them. “If this Emperor dies, it will be only because there is not a single Seppun left alive to protect him.”
Focus: 2
Legion of Death (R)
4F / 0C
0HR / 5G
Shadowlands • Undead • Unique. After this card enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Fear Battle: Bow a target enemy Personality with lower Force than the number of Shadowlands cards in your current army. “Easily created, loyal to a fault, and they never get tired. Honestly, it is a miracle the Empire still stands.” –Hida Benjiro
Focus: 1
Moonless Riders (R)
4F / 0C
3HR / 6G
Cavalry • Unique. Battle: Bow a target enemy Infantry Personality. “They are wave men operating out of Nanashi Mura. I find the use of such forces unpleasant, but there are no finer or quicker scouts in the Empire when the battlefield is shrouded in darkness.” –Toturi Shigekawa
Focus: 2
Ronin Brotherhood (R)
4F / 0C
0HR / 7G
Ronin. Battle: Ranged 4 Attack. Battle: Ranged 3 Attack. Battle: Move this unit home. “They fight not just for money, but for honor, and for one another. Three generations of warriors deserve respect, even if they are ronin.” –Matsu Kenji
Focus: 3
Student of Ninjutsu (C)
2F / 0C
0HR / 3G
Ninja. Battle: If this card is in your hand: Attach it to your target personality. “Young and naïve, with a peculiar sense of idealism, and utterly without hesitation in obeying any order, even certain death. One might call them useful, yes.” –Shosuro Toson
Focus: 2
Utaku Elite Guard (U)
1F / 0C
3HR / 3G
Cavalry • Battle Maiden. Battle Maidens in this army have +1F while attacking. Legion upon legion of fools have died thinking that a battle maiden without a horse was no threat.
Focus: 2