Discovering the Daisho of Water

Legend of the Five Rings card from The Coming Storm

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Card Text

Battle: Straighten your target Personality. If he has 3 or more Personal Honor, or is Lion Clan, you may take an additional action to use an ability printed on the Personality.

Focus Value

3

Legality

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

Deck

Fate

Story

2012 Treasures of the Oracles - Christophe de Sousa

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: For the purposes of taking Discovering the Daisho of Water, do abilities granted by invests count as printed abilities? For example, can I use the Fear 5 from an invested Isawa Orinoko? Could I also, perhaps, use the Range 3 granted by Guidance in War?
  Discovering the Daisho of Water: "Battle: Straighten your target Personality. If he has 3 or more Personal Honor, or is Lion Clan, you may take an additional action to use an ability printed on the Personality."
  Isawa Orinoko: "Invest : Give Orinoko three +1F/+1C tokens, then permanently give her Conqueror and the ability, "Fire Battle: Fear 5." This Invest cost cannot be reduced."
  Guidance in War: "This Spell's Invest effects last while it remains attached to the Shugenja. Invest : This Shugenja has Cavalry. Invest : This Shugenja has Conqueror. Invest : This Shugenja has +2F. Invest : This Shugenja has the ability, "Battle: Ranged 3 Attack.""
  A: If they are actually printed on the Personality, yes. Orinoko's invested Fear 5 is a Printed ability. The Ranged 3 granted by Guidance in War, however, is printed on Guidance in War, not the Personality to whom it is attached. Jon Palmer, "Discovering the Daisho of Water and Printed Abilities", 5 Jan 2015
• Q: Discovering the Daisho of Water doesn't let you use a printed ability twice in one turn, right? Just if you haven't used the ability, this would let you take an additional action to use it?
  A: Correct. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 8 Jun 2024