Koan's Robes

Legend of the Five Rings card from Coils of Madness

Card Type

Item

Force

+1

Chi

+1

Gold Cost

6

Keywords

Unique, Koan

Card Text

This Personality has a Force bonus equal to the number of other Koan cards in this unit.
This Personality need not bow for his Spells with an even Focus Value (0 is even).
Negate the first destruction each turn of cards in this unit from another player's card.

Focus Value

2

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If someone challenges my personality with Koan's Robes or Ominous Armor attached with a lethal duel and i focus deny the false form and he has 3C more than me, would the destruction be negated by the attachment?
  A: Deny the False Form is the source of the destruction in this case. Neither Ominous Armor nor Koan's Robes will save your Personality from your own Deny the False Form. Jon Palmer, "Deny the false form and Koan's Robes/omnious armor", 25 Jun 2014
• Q: First off, Koan's Robes states that it negates the first destruction of cards in the unit from another player's card.
  If I use Unsettling Gathering to steal my opponent's:
  1. Fueling the Flame, can I use the second ability "Fire Battle: Bow this Shugenja to make a Ranged 6 Attack. Destroy this Shugenja." and have Koan's Robes negate my shugenja's destruction?
  2. Blood of the Preserver, can I use it's ability "Maho Battle/Open, *: Target your dead Personality. Bring him into play if his Gold Cost is equal to or less than the amount paid. Lose 2 Honor. Destroy this Item." to bring back my dead Personality and have Koan's Robes negate the Item's destruction?
  Conversely, what if I steal my opponent's Koan's Robes? Does the trait trigger from my own cards?
  A: 1. No
  2. No
  (3.) No
  While you control a card, its text is read from your perspective, regardless of who owns it. Brook Cunningham, "Koan's Robes and another player's card", 26 Jan 2014
• Q: Ivory was wild for spell tower shugenja. We still got leftover power cards from Emperor Koan's Robes expecially
  A: - me in Ivory Edition, running Crab dueling - T4 at KC Kotei vs. Scorp Dishonor - bad gold start, first Personality is Komori Taruko - stare at Koan's Whisper in hand - credibly threaten provinces every turn until my gold stabilizes and I start churning out 5G bodies like crazy - win Kotei Jeff Williamson, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 8 Dec 2023