Shosuro Hotaka
Legend of the Five Rings card from Ivory Edition
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 0
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 4
- Personal Honor
- 1
- Clan
- Scorpion
- Keywords
- Destined, Courtier, Scorpion Clan
- Card Text
- Invest
: Discard a card from your hand to make a target player lose Honor equal to half the Focus Value, rounded up. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
Ivory Edition
- Rarity
- Rare
- Flavor Text
- "He was instrumental in Otomo Suikihime's escape and restoration to power. Of course, she does not know he was merely following orders… let her believe that he is her savior for now." - Bayushi Shibata
- Artist
- Shen Fei
- Card Number
- 143
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Shibata Sensei says: "Recruiting Personalities has a minimum Gold Cost of 5 for you."
Comprehensive rules state: "Before paying for a card entering play, a player may permanently increase the card's Gold cost by the additional cost in its Invest trait, once, to get an additional effect after it enters play..."
Shosuro Hotaka has a base cost of 4 gold, and states: "Invest (2): Discard a card from your hand to make a target player lose Honor equal to half the Focus Value, rounded up."
Question: If I play with Shibata Sensei, and invest Shosuro Hotaka while recruiting him, does he cost 6g (base + Invest), or does he cost 7g (Shibata minimum + Invest)?
A: When determining the current value of a stat, minimums and maximums are always applied last, after bonuses and penalties.
So, an Invested Hotaka would only cost 6, even while using Shibata (printed + Invest "bonus" = 6, apply minimum of 5, still 6). Brook Cunningham, "Shibata Sensei and Shosuro Hotaka", 5 Sep 2014