Asukai, the Tireless

Legend of the Five Rings card from Coils of Madness

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

4

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Conqueror, Unique, Crane Clan, Earth, Monk

Card Text

Asukai enters play ignoring Gold Cost if you control the Ring of Earth.
Other players' cards will not affect your Provinces' strengths.

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), Age of Conquest (Emperor)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2012 Defenders of the Empire Top of Clan - Crane Donors

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I am under the impression that text from Oracle of the Void should be taken as final say for MRP.
  Some newer cards have names as titles, such as "Asukai, the Tireless". Some of these cards on Oracle indicate that "the Tireless" is a keyword, while some others with titles do not have the title as a keyword.
  Should we include these titles as keywords, and add them to the number of keywords a card has, or ignore it as an oversight on Oracle?
  Sadly a few games ended in question because of "Murderous Intent".
  Thanks in advance guys!
  A: The bit of flavor after a comma in card's title is indeed considered a single keyword.
  It will be added to the Ivory Clan Champions sometime before their tournament legality, but it should be present on the entries for all cards prior to that.
  However, if it's any consolation, we're pretty sure at this point that we're never going to print another card that counts keywords ever again. Brook Cunningham, "Number of keywords clarification", 4 Jan 2014
• Q: Hi there,
  My opponent has Asukai, the Tireless in play and has raised his province strength (for example: Fortifications). I play Ancient Feud. Does Asukai prevent it from resetting it to base value? Technically I'd say the Ancient Feud is "affecting" province strength but only because it had a strength above the maximum in this example.
  Thank you!
  A: Yes, your opponent's Asukai, the Tireless will prevent your Ancient Feud from enforcing a maximum value to their Province Strength.
  Ancient Feud creates a maximum value that tries to enforce itself in Step D of Calculating Stats, and thus does affect Province Strength. Ben Higgins, "Asukai, the Tireless", 15 Oct 2013