Spoiler de The Imperial Gift 2
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Strongholds (2)
Lost Traveler Castle
5PS / 4G / 5SH
After the first time each turn you choose a Personality to bring into play during your Dynasty Phase: You may pay 2 less Gold, and after he enters play, gain Honor equal to his Personal Honor.
Sunrise Keep
6PS / 4G / 3SH
After the first time each turn you choose a Personality to bring into play during your Dynasty Phase: You may pay 2 less Gold for him and ignore his Honor Requirement. Battle: Even if this card is bowed, target your opposed Personality: Give him +2F.
Crab (3)
Hida Rokurota
6F / 4C
0HR / 9G / 2PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Commander • Unique. Battle: Attach a target Follower from your hand or discard pile to your target Personality. “What are you waiting for? Will you let a few goblins and a volcano halt your progress?”
Hida Shinko
5F / 1C
-HR / 7G / 1PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Berserker. Battle: Destroy Shinko: Destroy a target enemy card without attachments. “Even the damned fear her. Some believe her father was a demon. Personally I doubt that. I have never seen a demon as ferocious as her.” –Hida Reiha
Hiruma Etsuro
4F / 3C
0HR / 6G / 2PH
Crab Clan • Samurai • Scout • Unique. Recon Limited: Give a target province -2 strength. “There is nowhere he cannot go, nothing he cannot hunt. Were he a Scorpion, I would fear him above all others.” –Hiruma Todori
Crane (3)
Doji Kato
1F / 3C
5HR / 5G / 4PH
Crane Clan • Courtier • Unique. Political Battle: Even if Kato is not at the current battlefield: Move a target bowed Personality home. If you do not control him, gain 2 Honor. “We have to find some way to overcome the alliance of Emerald Champion and Imperial Chancellor, Nagori-sama. Perhaps we should consider how the Advisor might be of use to us.”
Daidoji Harada
3F / 3C
5HR / 7G / 3PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Scout. Harada has +2F while he is opposing a Personality whose controller has lower Family Honor than you. “If the Army of Fire should return, the Crane will remain in place to defeat them. The glory must not go to the Scorpion.”
Kakita Toshiro
2F / 4C
6HR / 8G / 4PH
Crane Clan • Samurai • Duelist • Unique. Iaijutsu Battle: Bow Toshiro: Bow a target enemy card without attachments, and with lower Chi than Toshiro if the card is a Personality. “You might have lived to see another dawn, had you not questioned my family’s honor.”
Dragon(3)
Kitsuki Hanbei
3F / 4C
5HR / 7G / 3PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Magistrate • Unique. Open: Give -3F to a target Personality with lower Personal Honor than Hanbei’s Chi. “The Dragon and their tedious emphasis on ‘evidence’ can be most troubling. If they were not the family of the Empress, we would have to ensure they were no longer a concern.”–Bayushi Sihaken
Mirumoto Ayabe
4F / 3C
5HR / 7G / 3PH
Dragon Clan • Samurai • Kensai • Commander • Unique. Battle: Even if Ayabe is bowed: Straighten a target Personality with one or more attachments. Bow all attachments in that Personality’s unit. “Your legions have our thanks for your assistance, and you are free to remain as long as you like… but we have nothing to feed you.”
Tamori Masako
3F / 4C
4HR / 8G / 2PH
Dragon Clan • Earth • Shugenja. Reaction: After Masako’s unit assigns or moves to a battlefield: Give the battlefield’s province +3 or -3 strength. ”We must ensure that our lands can never be threatened again. His army is lost, but the Dark Oracle lives on.”
Lion (3)
Akodo Kurogane
3F / 2C
7HR / 6G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Tactician • Unique. Battle: If there are more units on your side of the current battlefield than on the enemy side, bow all cards in your target unit: Destroy a target non-Unique Personality. “Place the tenth through twentieth legions on review, and schedule additional maneuvers. Victory is no justification for lack of discipline.”
Ikoma Igawa
2F / 3C
4HR / 5G / 2PH
Lion Clan • Courtier • Unique. Reaction: After engaging in a battle, if Igawa is in the current attacking army, discard a card: The Defender chooses and discards a card from his hand. “The Crane and the Scorpion are so preoccupied with one another that little effort is expended against anyone else. I never fail to recognize opportunity.”
Matsu Mansaiko
3F / 3C
5HR / 6G / 3PH
Lion Clan • Samurai • Paragon. Battle: Discard a card: Give Mansaiko +2F. If Mansaiko is opposed and you discarded a Bushido Virtue card, gain 2 Honor. “I have claimed my first victory for the Lion, but it will be far from my last.”
Mantis (3)
Moshi Takako
3F / 5C
2HR / 7G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Thunder • Shugenja • Naval • Unique. Battle: Bow Takako, choose a number from 1to 10, and pay that much Gold: Ranged Attack with strength equal to the number chosen. “Channeling the power of Thunder can have devastating effect, but the cost can be considerable.”
Tsuruchi Oguri
3F / 3C
2HR / 6G / 2PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Scout • Unique. Battle: Bow Oguri: Ranged 4 Attack. You may move Oguri home. If he moved, straighten him. “What use are the courts, with their stifling rules and mind-numbing conversation? Give me the open air and prey to hunt.”
Yoritomo Sasake
4F / 2C
0HR / 7G / 1PH
Mantis Clan • Samurai • Naval • Commander. Battle: Straighten your target Follower. “It is only because I am an honorable servant of the Mantis Clan that I do not kill you for your insult. Call me a pirate again and I will leave you only enough teeth to warn others”
Phoenix(3)
Isawa Reido
2F / 4C
2HR / 6G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Fire • Shugenja • Unique. Battle: Destroy your target Personality or Follower: Destroy a target Personality or Follower without attachments and with equal or lower Force than your targeted Personality or Follower. “Do you doubt the power of the elements? I will show you the truth found in fire.”
Isawa Tanaka
3F / 3C
2HR / 7G / 3PH
Phoenix Clan • Water • Shugenja • Cavalry. Battle: Move your target Personality at any location to a battlefield where there are one or more enemy units. “Why must there always be war? Why can man not turn away from conflict and embrace our place in the universe? So long as war exists, the Phoenix must stand ready.”
Shiba Nobuyuki
4F / 3C
0HR / 7G / 2PH
Phoenix Clan • Samurai • Yojimbo • Unique. Battle/Open: Give Nobuyuki a Force bonus equal to your target Shugenja’s Chi. “It is my duty to stand at the side of the Isawa, no matter the danger. As long as I live, they need not fear for their lives.”
Scorpion(3)
Bayushi Kayama
4F / 4C
0HR / 7G / 2PH
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Kensai • Bitter Lies • Unique. While Kayama has a Weapon, he contributes Force during battle resolution even while bowed. Battle: Bow Kayama: Bow a target enemy Follower or Personality without Followers. “I have no need of poison, stealth, or subtlety. Face me and understand why.”
Bayushi Sihaken
3F / 4C
-HR / 7G / 1PH
Scorpion Clan • Samurai • Magistrate. Reaction: After Sihaken’s army destroys one or more provinces or enemy units by winning a battle: The Defender loses 2Honor. “Scorpions make surprisingly effective magistrates. After all, who knows the law better than those who make a habit of breaking it?” –Kitsuki Hanbei
Bayushi Tsubaki
4F / 3C
-HR / 7G / 0PH
Scorpion Clan • Ninja • Unique. Limited: Bow Tsubaki: Bow a target Personality and give him a -1F Poison token. “We were simply having a stroll by the lake when sensei-sama collapsed in mid-sentence! We all tried but there was nothing we could do!” –A student of the late Sensei Togama
Spider(3)
Chuda Fukuzo
4F / 4C
-HR / 8G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Bog Hag • Shugenja • Infiltrator • Unique. After Fukuzo enters play: Lose 2 Honor. Maho Reaction: After there solution of an action that destroyed any Personalities at Fukuzo’s battlefield: Give Fukuzo a Force bonus equal to one of the Personalities’ Force. “I find the form of a human most useful for all manner of proper mischief.”
Daigotsu Oki
0F / 3C
-HR / 5G / 3PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni • Courtier • Infiltrator • Unique. After Oki enters play: Gain 3 Honor. Political Open: Destroy Oki: Target a Personality with lower Personal Honor than Oki. His unit may not be assigned and will not move to battlefields this turn. “Oh, Fortunes, aren’t you a darling! Where is your mother, little one?”
Daigotsu Shinjitsu
5F / 3C
-HR / 8G / 0PH
Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Samurai •Paragon • Dark Truth. After Shinjitsu enters play: Lose 4 Honor. Battle: Discard a Dark Virtue card: Give Shinjitsu a Force bonus equal to the discarded card’s Focus Value plus 1. “My name means truth. Can you see the truth of the world in my face, fool?”
Unicorn(3)
Iuchi Kota
3F / 4C
3HR / 8G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan • Shugenja • Cavalry • Unique. Kota has +2F while he has a Spell attached. Battle: Attach a target Spell from your hand to Kota. “His training with the Kuni family has left him with certain... social deficits.” –Moto Akikazu
Shinjo Kodama
4F / 3C
4HR / 8G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Commander • Unique. Open: Straighten all Cavalry cards in a target unit. “I have no agenda, no driving quest, no political aspirations. I am a soldier, nothing more. I hope only to serve with distinction, that my sons will be proud of me.”
Utaku Yanai
3F / 2C
5HR / 7G / 3PH
Unicorn Clan • Samurai • Cavalry • Battle Maiden. Battle: Give a target enemy Personality or Follower –2F. If its Force is now 0, bow it and gain 2 Honor. “With respect, Ikoma-sama, your maps are woefully out of date. This village belongs to the Unicorn. I trust we can resolve this matter without needless bloodshed?”
Shadowlands (2)
Arugai no Oni
14F / 5C
-HR / 14G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Oni • Unique. After Arugai enters play: Lose 8Honor. Reaction: After another player’s action targets an Oni at Arugai’s location: Negate the Oni’s destruction from the action’s effects. “It is not a complex opponent, but it can be very difficult to kill once and for all.” –Hida Benjiro
Pokupo
2F / 1C
-HR / 2G / 0PH
Shadowlands • Nonhuman • Goblin • Scout. After Pokupo enters play: Lose 2Honor. Pokupo has +1F while you control Pokku. “The notion of that little wretch Pokku having spawned fills me with horror… and nausea.” –Chuda Hiroe
Unaligned(1)
Kyogen
3F / 2C
-HR / 4G / 1PH
Ronin • Actor. Open: Give Kyogen a keyword on your target Personality. “Now I will perform for you the tragic tale of Matsu Itagi and Hida Tadaka, great men undone by pride despite all their prowess.”
Holding (6)
Colapsing Bridge
Coste: 2
Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Open: Destroy this card: Give a target province +3strength. “Delicate and pleasing in appearance, but sturdy in construction. Yet in a single instant, it can be shattered, leaving no means of entrance for one's enemies.” –Daidoji Kikaze
Family Histories
Coste: 4
Unique. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold, plus 1 Gold for each of your provinces destroyed this game. Limited: Bow this card: Gain 1 Honor. “The tales of a thousand heroes are contained within, giving inspiration to generations of their descendants.”
Frontline Encampment
Coste. 2
Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Destroy this card: Give your target Personality+2F. The War of Dark Fire is over, but the Empire has yet to relax his guard. The northern border remains quite well-defended.
My Father’s Shrine
Coste: 2
Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Limited: Bow your target Personality: Gain1 Honor. “My every victory is in his name, and I hope only that my efforts find favor with his spirit.”
Simple Merchants
Coste: 7
Unique. Bow this card: Produce 4 Gold, plus 1 additional Gold for each Farm, Mine, and Port you control. “Common peasants, selling their excess in order to make abetter life for their families. They serve their purpose.” –Yoritomo Utemaro, Imperial Treasurer
Smuggler’s Port
Coste: 2.
Port. Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold. Reaction: When paying a gold cost, if your Family Honor is 1 or higher, bow this card and lose 2 Honor: Produce 3 Gold. “Isolate those ports the clan requires. Burn all the rest.” –Yoritomo Naizen
Event (6)
Delayed Arrival
Target a Personality, his unit may not be assigned to attack you until your next turn begins. “It is unfortunate that you were delayed, my lord, but regrettably we cannot admit you until the Empress’ court is concluded.”
Espionage
Look at all face-down cards in one other player’s provinces. “All clans seek information on their enemies, even if they choose to believe otherwise. The Scorpion are far better at it than most, but even they let their guard down eventually.” –Kyogen
Midnight Assault
Until your next turn begins, negate all Honor gains during Attack Phases. “The Spider Clan, commanded to dissolve and dispose of their banners on pain of death, still exists. They simply choose their battles more carefully.”
Military Alliance
Until the game ends, after each time a player destroys a province by winning a battle, he gains 3 Honor. “You efforts a great boon to the alliance, noble warrior. You honor us all with your prowess.”
The Stone Discovered
You may put a Follower, Item, or Spell from your discard pile into your hand. “There is a legend among the zokujin of an ancient power called the Blood-White Stone. If it were ever rediscovered, it would change the destiny of their race forever.” –Asako Bairei
Under Siege
Until your next turn begins, all provinces have-2 strength. “There are precious few fortresses in the Empire that can withstand a true siege. This is a lesson the Crab must not learn the hard way.”–Kaiu Taru
Region(2)
Undefended Border
Unique. Battle: Bow this card: Give your target Personality+1F, and an additional +1F if he is a Scout or Tactician. “I know an inlet, one with no patrols or waystations. If you want to gain entrance to their lands, this is the way to do it.” –Yoritomo Han-ku
Well-Defended Border
Unique. Attacking Personalities and Followers have-1F while at this province’s battlefield. Reaction: After another player’s Dynasty Phase begins, if he controls any units and did not assign any to attack this province this turn: Gain 1 Honor. The invasion in the north has caused many clans to carefully re-evaluate their own defenses.
Strategy(17)
Back to the Front
Coste: 0
Battle: Move your target Personality to a battlefield he assigned to this turn. If he moved, straighten his unit. “This report is most troubling, as are your injuries. I shall have my finest shugenja attend to you.” “Forgive me, sama, but my lord has need of me at the front, and these scratches will not delay me.”
Focus: 3
Do Not Turn Your Back!
Coste: 0
Unique. Battle/Open: Straighten your target Personality. Battle: Target your unbowed Commander Personality: Straighten one or two target units. “I am not finished yet! Draw your weapon and face me!”
Focus: 2
Fall Back!
Coste. 0
Battle: Move your target Personality home. If he moved, straighten his unit, and you may straighten one of your other units. “There is no end to them! Fall back to the border of the village! Tell the archers to set fire to everything in sight!”
Focus: 4
Fields of Battle
Coste: 0
Terrain. Battle: While at this battlefield, Personalities with0 or 1 Personal Honour may not use their base abilities and have -1F. What begins as a relatively minor dispute may be settled with the blood of thousands. But honor will be assuaged.
Focus: 1
For My Brothers!
Coste: 0
Battle: Remove your target dead Personality from the game: Give a target enemy Personality or Follower a Force penalty equal to there moved Personality’s base Force. “I heard your boasting, braggart! My brothers will take issue with your disgraceful slander in the next world!”
Focus: 2
Forward Reconnaissance
Coste: 0
Recon. Open: Target a province. During battles at the province’s battlefield, Terrain actions may only be taken by a player with a Scout Personality in his army. “Find out all you can. Leave signs for other scouts, in case you are killed.” –Hiruma Todori
Focus: 2
Incapacitated
Coste: 0
Battle: Move a target defending Personality home. “There are enemies too dangerous to kill, and allies too dangerous to place at risk. Sometimes they are even the same. We have our ways of handling such matters.” –Tsuruchi Nobumoto
Focus: 2
Mastery of the Blade
Coste: 0
Battle: Straighten your target Personality with a Weapon. You may move him home. The brutality of the so-called Spider monks is well known, even only a few years after they appeared. Their mastery of the bisento is a thing of legend.
Focus: 3
Obsfucation
Coste: 0
Battle: Attach a target attachment from your hand or discard pile to your target Personality. You may take an additional Battle action to use one of the attachment’s base Battle abilities. “Mask one thing with another, and even before a crowd, your actions will go unnoticed.” –Kyogen
Focus: 1
Outmatched
Coste. 0
Unique. Battle: Bow your target Personality: Bow one or two target enemy Personalities, each with lower Chi and lower Personal Honor than your Personality. “Did you honestly think you could hide from me? And here, of all places!”
Focus: 4
Prayer for Guidance
Coste: 0
Bushido Virtue. Battle/Open: Target your honorable Samurai: After the next time this turn he is destroyed or bowed by another player’s action or by battle resolution, gain 3 Honor. “Guide my hand, mother. Give me the will to be the hand of the Scorpion.”
Focus: 2
Prepared for Death
Coste: 0
Limited: Give your target Personality +2F. “If I must die, at least it will be a glorious death.”
Focus: 2
Ruthless Determination
Coste: 0
Dark Virtue. Battle: Target your unbowed Samurai Personality: Bow a target enemy Follower, or Personality without Followers, with lower Force than your Personality. “I have pressing business, and no time to dawdle with the likes of you. In the next life, perhaps you will be more cautious.”
Focus: 3
The Cresting Wave
Coste: 0
Battle: Give each of your opposed Personalities and Followers at the current battlefield +1F. “When the bodies pile up around you like a mountain, and your enemies must crawl over their dead comrades to crash against you in waves, that is the only time I feel alive.” –Hida Shinko
Focus: 2
Timely Assistance
Coste: 0
Limited: Bow your target Personality: Give another target Personality a Force bonus equal to your Personality’s Force. Straighten the first targeted Personality after your next End Phase begins. “Come along, brother. Things here are about to become a bit too interesting.”
Focus: 1
Under Cover of Night
Coste: 0
Terrain. Battle: Before this battle’s resolution, you may target and bow a Personality with the highest Personal Honor at this battlefield (including ties). “Travel papers and magistrates’ stations would interfere with our work. This matter requires discretion.”
Focus: 1
Wrathful Defense
Coste: 0
Battle: Bow your target Personality: Move a target enemy Personality home. Until the turn ends, negate his movement from costs or effects of actions. “They are miserable, cowardly creatures, unless you threaten something they consider theirs.” –Kuni Kiyoshi
Focus: 3
Spell (5)
Breath of the Dragon
Coste: 0
Fire • Unique. Battle: Bow and destroy this Shugenja: Destroy a target enemy Personality without attachments. You may then target an enemy Personality and destroy all of his attachments. “Go now, and do not look back. I will deal with this rabble.” –Isawa Reido
Focus: 4
Earthen Blade
Coste: 0
Earth • Unique. Your Personalities with a Weapon have +2F. “The ritual draws upon fire, water, and air to enhance the natural strength and power of earth. The blade born of this ritual can cut through anything, and will never break.” –Isawa Emori
Focus: 4
Rejuvenating Vapors
Coste: 0
Water. Battle: Even if this unit is not at the current battlefield, bow this Shugenja: Target your Personality. Give him +3F if he is unbowed. Straighten him. “Let the strength and clarity of water wash away your fatigue, my friend. Stand and fight once more.”
Focus: 1
Suitengu’s Embrace
Coste: 0
Water. Battle: Bow this Shugenja, or bow this card if the targeted card has no attachments: Bow a target enemy card. “You may live, you may not. Regardless, you will never again dismiss the strength of the sea.”
Focus: 3
Thunderous Report
Coste: 2
Thunder. Battle: Bow this Shugenja and destroy this spell: Bow each Follower and Personality at this battlefield without attachments and with lower Force than the performing Shugenja’s Chi. “None can stand against the fury of the thunder and live.” –Moshi Takako
Focus: 3
Item (7)
A Samurai's Soul
Coste: 2
+2F / +1C
Weapon. Th esoul of a samurai is contained within his blade, and the eldest of each generation is blessed to carry the katana of his grandfather. It is an honor, and a burden.
Focus: 2
Infamous Blade
Coste: 4
+3F / +1C
Weapon • Unique. Battle: Bow this card: Destroy a target enemy Follower. “This blade was stained with the blood of forty-seven men, and none of them claimed in battle. Are you fit to wield it and fulfill its legacy?”–Shosuro Toson
Focus: 3
Iron Fan
Coste: 3
+2F / +0C
Tessen • Weapon. Reaction: After another player’s Battle action targets this Personality: Give a target enemy Personality or Follower -3F. “It serves for a commander to signal his forces, a courtier to conceal her intent, and a warrior to strike down his enemies. How can one fail to appreciate its versatility?” –Ikoma Hagio
Focus: 2
Straw Horse
Coste: 1
+0F / +0C
Unique. This Personality has the Cavalry keyword. “Some legends say they ferry the spirits of the dead between the realm of mortals and their final destination. To me it is just a spectacularly ugly place to put my saddle.” –Shinjo Kodama
Focus: 4
Throwing Knives
Coste: 3
+1F / +0C
Weapon. Battle: Destroy this card: Ranged Attack with a strength equal to this Personality's Force. “Completely useless against armor, but at close range against an unarmored target? Useful enough.” –Shosuro Miyoto
Focus: 1
Token of Destiny
Coste: 1
+0F / +0C
Unique. Reaction: After another player’s action targets his Personality, destroy this card: Negate the Personality’s destruction from the action’s effects. “I felt light-headed for a moment, and then it simply broke. I wonder what could have happened?”
Focus: 4
Yari
Coste: 3
+2F / +1C
Weapon. Reaction: After an action targets this Personality: Negate all Force penalties on this Personality from the action. Useful and inexpensive to produce, the yari is a popular choice for forces that are not expected to survive on the battlefield.
Focus: 3
Follower(7)
Elite Archers
1F / 0C
1HR / 2G
Battle: Discard a card: Ranged Attack with strength equal to the discarded card’s Focus Value 1. “Our units on the front line have mingled with the enemy. Choose your targets carefully. Officers are our priority. Fire at will.”
Focus: 3
Dutiful Yojimbo
3F / 0C
3HR / 5G / -PH
Yojimbo • Unique. Attaches to a Unique Personality paying 2less Gold. Battle: Even if this card is bowed: Straighten a target non-Unique card in a unit. “Conduct your negotiations without fear, my lord. You will not be interrupted.”
Focus: 3
Heavy Regulars
3F / 0C
2HR / 4G
Battle: Destroy this card: Ranged 5 Attack. The backbone of any fighting force, the heavy regulars often follow the front line troops and seek to break the formation of the enemy line.
Focus: 2
Seppun Heavy Infantry
4F / 0C
2HR / 5G
Battle resolution does not bow cards in this unit. “They have sworn to die to a man before the Empress comes to any harm. I have seen them on maneuver, and I believe their devotion is genuine.” –Otomo Taneji
Focus: 3
Spearmen Legion
4F / 0C
1HR / 5G
Battle: Bow this card: Ranged 4 Attack. Quickly trained and eager for glory, they rarely survive more than a handful of battles. Those who do quickly become the favored forces of their commander.
Focus: 2
Traveling Wardens
3F / 0C
1HR / 4G
Cavalry • Unique. Battle: Give a target enemy Follower or Personality without Followers -3F. “It is the duty of the Lion Clan to secure all clan borders. I need to see your traveling papers immediately.”
Focus: 4
Village Guardian
3F / 0C
0HR / 4G
Reaction: After this card enters play from your hand: Draw on card for each player who has had a province destroyed this game. “I have no need for glory or status. I have a home, and I will protect it. Nothing else matters.”
Focus: 1