Bloodstrike

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Honor Bound

Card Type: Strategy
Gold Cost: 0
Keywords: Kiho, Maho
Card Text: Kiho Maho Battle: Bow your target performing Shugenja to give zero or more target enemy Personalities up to the Shugenja's Chi each a -1C Blood token.
Focus Value: 4
Legality: Hidden Emperor (Jade), Rain of Blood (Diamond)
Deck: Fate

Printings

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: "He did not look like a maho-tsukai," the dying man groaned.
"They never do, fool," snarled Kiyoshi.
Artist: Mike Raabe
Card Number: 414
Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group

Rarity: Rare
Flavor Text: "Tell me again, Grandfather, of the power of blood and of the Four Masks of the Master that hold the key." -Iuchi Shahai
Artist: Ben Peck
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast

Q: I am sure this was covered earlier, but I can't find the ruling.
If my enemy has a 3C (Samurai) personality and play Wounded in Battle, and then a Bloodstrike or something... does he die after the resolution of this battle.
A: The answer is in the MRP of Wounded in Battle.
"Battle: Give a Personality in this battle -2C. If the Personality is a Samurai, he does not die from having 0 Chi during this battle."
The samurai is totally protected from dying due to having 0 Chi for the entire rest of the battle. When the battle ends, so does this protection. If his Chi is 0 then (or later), he dies. Jeff Alexander, "rules for 24 March 2004", 26 Mar 2004
Q: On that same thread an attached Bloodstrike on a night medallioned personality looks absolutely hideous...!now there is an idea!
A: Well, it is a hideous combo, but not in the way you think. See, -1 is considered a numeral. Adding two to -1 makes it +1, not -3. So, the Night Medallioned/Blessings/Bloodstrike would be able to bow to give all personalities in the opposing army +1 Chi. Hideous. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for", 12 Jan 2001