Musha-Gaeshi
Legend of the Five Rings card from A Line in the Sand
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Holding
- Gold Cost
- 3
- Keywords
- Fortification
- Card Text
- This Fortification enters play bowed. This Province has +1 strength for each other Fortification attached to it, up to 3.
w: Produce 3 Gold. - Legality
- A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
A Line in the Sand
- Rarity
- Common
- Flavor Text
- The steep, curved stone walls of Rokugani castles are designed to repel invaders. It is said that even mice could not scale them.
- Artist
- Gong Studios
- Card Number
- 14
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Your non-Fortification Holdings enter play for 1 more Gold. Each Province you assigned a Personality to defend or with a Cavalry unit attacking it has +1 strength for each Fortification attached to it, and has a maximum strength equal to its printed strength +4
Hypothetical situation:
I have 6 base province strength and have two provinces with the following attached:
Province A has three Defensive Memorials and one Carpenter Shrine attached giving it a province strength of 12 Province B has two Musha Gaeshi and two Carpenter Shrines attached giving it a province strength 12
My opponent attacks both provinces. I chose to defend the one with the Gaeshis and leave the Defensive Memorials undefended. Now my question is thus: The sensei says that my maximum province strength is base (6) plus four. Now because there is a comma and not a period on the last line of the sensei's trait does the province strength cap only apply if I choose to defend a province? Would my province with the three Defensive Memorials still be rocking a nice robust 12 province strength?
Thanks!
A: The province you don't defend would have a strength of 12.
The criteria at the start of the sentence apply to each of the remaining clauses. Alex Jones, "Dijuro Sensei", 23 Feb 2015 - Q: For the sake of clarity I must ask, to what does the final 3 in Musha-Gaeshi's Provence Strength boosting trait refer, the total bonus, or the number of fortifications it can draw that bonus from? I ask specifically due to the inclusion of Mark of Heaven's Favor in Twenty Festivals. Would I be able to increase the per fortification bonus to +2 for a total bonus of +6, or is the bonus capped at 3 unless I increase the bonus cap?
Musha-Gaeshi: "This Fortification enters play bowed. This Province has +1 strength for each other Fortification attached to it, up to 3."
Mark of Heaven's Favor: "Air Open, Permanently increase a positive numeral on a target Holding by one (2 is a numeral, two is not). Remove this Spell from the game."
A: "Up to 3" refers to the number of Fortifications, not the Province Strength bonus. Alex Jones, "Musha-Gaeshi and Mark of Heaven's Favor", 22 Feb 2015