Keppo

Legend of the Five Rings card from The New Order, Onyx Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Experienced, Goblin, Nonhuman, Scout, Shadowlands

Card Text

After Keppo enters play, lose 3 Honor.
Interrupt, :g*:: If the action Recruits Keppo or is his printed Battle action, after it resolves, Equip a target attachment from another player's discard pile to him.
Battle: Destroy a target enemy attachment with 4 Gold Cost or less.

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2013 A Hero for the Ages - Anthony Lawrence

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: It's my turn and i'm going to use Keppos ability and destroy enemy VWM. Is it possible to take control of this follower by Keppo's Interrupt?
  Victorious Wave Men After this Follower is destroyed by another player's action or by battle resolution, put it in your hand.
  Keppo exp. Interrupt, (GC): If the action Recruits Keppo or is his printed Battle action, after it resolves, Equip a target attachment from another player's discard pile to him.
  A: No.
  The delayed effect of Keppo's Interrupt triggers "after [the action] resolves." However, the trigger on Victorious Wave Men to return the card to its owner's hand is after its destruction - which is duing the action's resolution. Alex Jones, "Keppo and Victorious Wave Man", 18 May 2015
• 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: Hello, I had a quick question about this potential interaction
  A) I have Keppo and another Personality with a battle action (Let's say Daigotsu Atsushi) at the battle. B) I play Inspired Leadership and have Atsushi copy Keppo's Interrupt. I take an additional action C) I use Atsushi's Fear 2
  My question is can I use the copied interrupt as well to attach an item from my opponent's discard pile? My reasoning is that in post arcs that I played in, when abilities were copied, we almost always substituted the name of the copied with the copier. In this instance, I would imagine that on the copied interrupt, Keppo would be replaced with Daigotsu Atsushi.
  Cheers!
  Keppo Interrupt, *gold : If the action Recruits Keppo or is his printed Battle action, after it resolves, Equip a target attachment from another player's discard pile to him. Battle: Destroy a target enemy attachment with 4 Gold Cost or less.
  Inspired Leadership Battle: Target your Personality and another Personality. Give your Personality +1F and he copies an ability on the second target which does not copy abilities.
  Daigotsu Atsushi Battle: Fear 2
  A: Yes, for the reason you describe - the References rules have not changed in this respect. Alex Jones, "Keppo + Inspired Leadership", 17 Feb 2015
• Q: How do unaligned and minor clan aligned personalities work for the 2g increase? Does Keppo cost 2 more? Does a wasp or boar clan personality cost 2 more?
  A: is correct. Only Clans that have Strongholds in a given legality arc are "Clan Alignments" for the purpose of the "pay 2 more" Rule. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 3 Aug 2024