Shinjo Kinto
Legend of the Five Rings card from Aftermath
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 4
- Chi
- 4
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 9
- Personal Honor
- 3
- Clan
- Unicorn
- Keywords
- Cavalry, Experienced 2, Unique, Commander, Commander of the 9th Legion, Imperial, Samurai, Scout, Unicorn Clan
- Card Text
- Battle: Target two Personalities at different locations controlled by the same player. Switch their locations. After they move, straighten their units if you do not control them.
- Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), Age of Conquest (Emperor)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Aftermath
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "I have taken a city, spent time as a 'guest' of the Spider, and now relinquish the city back to the woman from whom I took it. This is a mad land."
- Artist
- Sergio Camarena
- Card Number
- 73
- 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?
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A: No, it does not. Brook Cunningham, "Iuchi Karasu Inexp", 27 Aug 2014 - Q: I saw the above ruling and was absolutely shocked. Has my playgroup been playing the game wrong for the past three years!?
We've routinely played games where we've had both (say) Shinjo Kinto XP1 and Shinjo Kinto XP2 in play for the same player at the same time. Hell, I'm pretty sure this happened in at least one Kotei for one of our guys and no one had a problem with it.
Are you really only allowed to have *one* copy of a Unique Personality in play, regardless of their experience level?
A: Yes.
See the definition of Unique, on p59 of the Comprehensive Rules: Unique: A player will not bring into play or take control of a Unique card if he or she already controls a Unique card with the same title (but see Experienced, p. 49). If a player takes control of a unit with a copy of a Unique attachment he or she already controls, discard the new attachment.
Title is defined on p10: Card Title: At the top of every card is its title bar. All L5R cards have a title in this bar, except for created cards, which have no title.
All versions of Shinjo Kinto - Shinjo Kinto non experienced, Shinjo Kinto Experienced and Shinjo Kinto Experienced 2 - have the same title: "Shinjo Kinto". Alex Jones, "Overlay", 24 Apr 2014