Bloodspeaker Sanctum

Legend of the Five Rings card from Reign of Blood

Card Type

Holding

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Bloodspeaker

Card Text

Bow this card: Produce 2 Gold.
Maho Reaction: Any number of times per turn, before you choose a performer for a Kiho action, bow this card and target your Personality: He may perform the action as if he were a Shugenja. Permanently give him Bloodspeaker.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I read the card correctly, then I can bow Bloodspeaker Sanctum to target Hida Bob and permanently give him the Bloodspeaker trait even though I'm going to have Kuni Frank be the personality who casts the Kiho.
  A: You're reading it right. In order for the Sanctum to work mechanically, it needs to do its thing before you have to choose who will cast the Kiho. It doesn't force you to choose the Personality you use it on. It merely says that he MAY cast that Kiho as if he were a Shugenja, and that he gains the Bloodspeaker Trait.
  Did I ever mention that you are a bad, bad person? ;-) Martin Lund, "Rules for 19 May 2004", 22 May 2004
• Q: Chiang Tsu has Playing With Madness cast by him after he is enabled to by Bloodspeaker Sanctum. Does he lose his ability since he is treated as a Shugenja for the purpose of casting the Kiho, or does the Innate Ability definition only affect cards that are actually Shugenja?
  Relevant cards (Chiang Tsu was just an example of a non-Shugenja with an Ability)
  Bloodspeaker Sanctum 2g Bow to produce 2 gold. Maho Reaction: Before you cast a Kiho, bow Bloodspeaker Sanctum to allow one of your Personalities to cast the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. Permanently give thet Personality the Bloodspeaker trait.
  Playing With Madness 0g, 1f Kiho Maho Limited: Bow one of your Shugenja. That shugenja permanently gains +2F/+2C and the Shadowlands and Bloodspeaker Traits, and permanently loses all current Innate Abilities. Any Spell or Kiho cast by the Shugenja for the rest of this game gans the Maho trait. Lose 2 Honor.
  A: Wow, there's never a dull moment around here, is there?
  Yup, he's casting the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. That makes all his abilities "Current Innate Abilities" while casting the Kiho. That means Playing with Madness will erase them permanently. Pretty vile stuff. I imagine that you could use this with Show of Good Faith to make some sort of evil juju. Martin Lund, "Rules for 4 April 2004", 6 Apr 2004
• Q: I have a question for Jeff.
  Some persons I know have a particular interpretation of this 3 cards : Asako Kinuye - Playing With Madness (PWM) and Bloodspeaker Sanctum.
  The problem is they think that PWM can be played with Kinuye with the use of the Sanctum.
  A: It can. PWM is a Maho Kiho. Kinuye does not need to bow when casting Maho Kihos. It can only be cast by Shugenja, though, which Bloodspeaker Sanctum provides. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 10 Feb. 2004", 11 Feb 2004
• Q: Can you bow Bloodspeaker's Sanctum to allow one of your non-shugenja personalities to cast a kiho as if they were a shugenja, if you're playing off of City of Remembrance?
  A: Yes, because it's the more recent effect. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 1 December 2003, Part 2", 2 Dec 2003