Iuchi Karasu
Legend of the Five Rings card from Coils of Madness
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 3
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- 4
- Gold Cost
- 7
- Personal Honor
- 3
- Clan
- Unicorn
- Keywords
- Unique, Doomseeker, Inexperienced, Shugenja, Unicorn Clan
- Card Text
- Home Battle: Target two Personalities at any location controlled by the same player. Switch their locations. Straighten each one of them that is not Fallen or Nonhuman. (Home actions may be used from home.)
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Coils of Madness
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- "Would that we all could have such unbreakable, insurmountable will as he." - Moto Naleesh
- Artist
- Adam Schumpert
- Card Number
- 83
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: We need clarification on Karasu Inexp, recently, I noticed this:
With the removal in Ivory of the old Exception to the Rule of Location, that allowed a card not at the current battlefield to be targeted by a Battle action if the action would move it there, Sudden Movement - and Shinjo Kinto exp2 - rely on Cardinal Rule #1 to allow you to target a Personality not at the current battlefield. However, while symmetry can be used to argue that, since targets are chosen simultaneously, neither Personality needs to be at the current battlefield, we have decided that this uses Cardinal Rule #1 more than is necessary for the cards to work.
Thus, one of the targets of Sudden Movement must be at the current battlefield.
Alex
Does the above change how Karasu work previously?
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=106288&p=1400957&hilit=karasu#p1400957
A: No, it does not. Brook Cunningham, "Iuchi Karasu Inexp", 27 Aug 2014 - Q: Card in question: Target two Personalities at any location controlled by the same player. Switch their locations. Straighten each one of them that is not Fallen or Nonhuman. (Home actions may be used from home.)
Scenario: I have Karasu attacking at province A. My opponent defends with one personality at province B, and one at province C. Can I, as my action at battlefield A, switch the positions of his personalities at B and C? If not, what does "At any location" really mean?
A: Your scenario is a perfectly legal use of Karasu's ability.
At the cost of potentially sounding like a jerk, "at any location" really does mean at any location. Ben Higgins, "Iuchi Karasu Inexp", 4 Jan 2014