Mirumoto Kalen

Legend of the Five Rings card from Aftermath

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

11

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Dragon

Keywords

Cavalry, Unique, Dragon Clan, Experienced, Samurai

Card Text

Fire Battle: Ranged 3 Attack. You may take an additional action to use Kalen's second printed ability.
Fire Battle, w: Ranged 3 Attack.

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2012 Treasures of the Oracles - Jeff Philips

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: As a slight addendum to this thread, the text in the Ivory rulebook of Ivory Rulebook wrote:After you have paid the costs of an initial action that creates an attack effect from a card in a unit, as an Interrupt to that action, you may pay the costs of an action from another card in the same unit that is appropriate to the phase and that creates another attack effect of the same kind, using that ability....You may combine more than one attack effect with the same initial action. seems to imply that you could not simply announce Kalen's first RA action and then combine it with his second ability, as the rules specify the combining effect must come from another card in the unit.
  My question is whether the phrase "another card" applies only from the standpoint of the initial card, or from all cards that are combining as well. For instance, I have a Kalen xp with a Spearmen attached. I bow the Spearmen for a Ranged 2, and as an interrupt, combine in his first RA action to make a Ranged 5. Can I then also combine in his second Ranged 3 to make a Ranged 8, as the action is on another card from where the originating effect came from?
  A: In this example, the Spearman can have is Ranged Attack combined with both of Kalen's Ranged Attack effects, as Kalen is not the same card as Spearman. Ruling Reversed. Please see the following post for explanation. Ben Higgins, "Mirumoto Kalen • Experienced Range attacks", 1 Jan 2014
• Q: With the advanced rules now posted, I'm thinking this answer needs updating?
  The new rules state:
  "After you have paid the costs of an initial action that creates an attack effect from a card in a unit, as an Interrupt to that action, you may pay the costs of an action from another card in the same unit that is appropriate to the phase and that creates another attack effect of the same kind..." (emphasis mine)
  So you can't use Kalen's ability and then stack on his second ability as he is not another card in the unit. Is that correct?
  A: That is correct. In Ivory edition, by the rulebook default, other Ranged Attack/Melee Attack/Fear effects that are being used to increase another similar effect cannot come from the same card as the original effect. Ben Higgins, "Mirumoto Kalen • Experienced Range attacks", 1 Jan 2014