Defensive Miko

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Coming Storm

Card Type

Follower

Force

3

Chi

0

Gold Cost

2

Keywords

Expendable

Card Text

(Draw a card after your Expendable card dies.)
This Personality cannot attack.

Focus Value

4

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Story

2013 Kotei Winner - William Sottie

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: I am attacking with Keppo XP and my defender has an Defensive Miko attached to his defender. Can I Interrupt Keppo's Battle action with his Interrupt to equip the Miko to Keppo?
  A: Yes. "Cannot attack" means he cannot assign to, move to, or enter play in an attacking army. Defensive Miko says the Personality cannot do those things; it doesn't say it can't do them itself, so it can enter play in an attacking army. Jon Palmer, "Defensive Miko & Equipping Mid-Battle", 27 Feb 2015
• Q: Today We Die
  If my personality is hit by Today We Die but cannot attack (Defensive Miko attached) do they still have to declare an attack and resolve all the battles? Attacking is not assigning, and assigning is necessarily attacking (he can still "legally assign" on defense if my opponent played a Reprisal). And if he did play a Reprisal, would I be required to assign him in defense even if he did not have the attached follower, too?
  It was ruled earlier that he gets the token when he defends:
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  So that would imply that the effects (Declare and attack, assign him, and give him a token) are three separate effects that his controller MUST do but are NOT dependent on him legally able to assign to ATTACK.
  Or should the card read
  A: The "if he can legally assign" clause governs the "must declare an attack and assign him" portion (and that portion only).
  If the Personality cannot legally assign, you are not forced to declare an attack. Brook Cunningham, "Today We Die & Cannot Attack Vs. Assign", 29 Jun 2014