Sons of Gusai

Legend of the Five Rings card from A Line in the Sand, The Currency of War

Card Type

Follower

Force

1

Chi

0

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Mercenary, Pirate

Card Text

This Follower has +1F while you control a Port.
Battle, w: Ranged 2 Attack.

Focus Value

1

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals)

Deck

Fate

Story

2013 Kotei Winner - Jan Penafuerte

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: If I attach a Sons of Gusai (or any other Ranged attack generating follower or item) to Taito, and declare a Naval RA from the Sons, if I then combine Taito's ranged attack to create an RA5, do I still have to discard a card?
  Based on the previous ruling of Tsuruchi Rin's gold production not carrying over from a combination, I would say no, but could you clarify?
  A: Yes, in your scenario, you would have to discard a card due to Taito's effect. All additional effects of combined Ranged Attacks still happen, including Rin's.
  However, the special case with Rin is, when combining her attack, it just gives a strength bonus to the original attack; it doesn't actually do any destroying on its own. Therefore, when the later effect of checking to see if it destroyed anything and producing Gold if it did... it didn't destroy anything, and for two reasons, in fact.
  First of all, it's the original attack, not Rin's, is doing the destroying. She's now just boosting its strength. Secondly, you resolve this check effect during the Interrupt step of taking actions, before the original attack even destroys anything anyway. Brook Cunningham, "Combining Tsuruchi Taito's Ranged attack on a Naval action", 21 Sep 2014