Chiang-Tsu

Legend of the Five Rings card from Diamond Edition, Promotional–Gold

Card Type

Personality

Force

0

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

9

Personal Honor

2

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Double Chi, Tactician, Unique

Card Text

Chiang-Tsu will not gain a Clan Alignment.
Repeatable Limited, w: Once per game per Personality, bow your target performing Human Personality. If this bowed him, after the next time this game he straightens, permanently give him either Double Chi or Tactician. Chiang-Tsu will not straighten until after your next Action Phase begins.

Legality

Four Winds (Gold), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Notes

The Promotional version of this card was misprinted with the Rare symbol.

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Chiang-Tsu 0F/4C -HR 9G 2PH Unaligned. Double Chi. Tactician. Unique. ChiangTsu will not swear fealty. Limited: Bow Chiang-Tsu and one of your Human Personalities as costs. When that Personality next streightens, permanently give him either Double Chi or Tactician. Chiang-Tsu cannot straighten until after your next straighten phase. This action may target each Personality once per game." [MRP, Diamond Edition, 27 October 2003] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 94

Rules Q&A

• Q: Chiang Tsu has Playing With Madness cast by him after he is enabled to by Bloodspeaker Sanctum. Does he lose his ability since he is treated as a Shugenja for the purpose of casting the Kiho, or does the Innate Ability definition only affect cards that are actually Shugenja?
  Relevant cards (Chiang Tsu was just an example of a non-Shugenja with an Ability)
  Bloodspeaker Sanctum 2g Bow to produce 2 gold. Maho Reaction: Before you cast a Kiho, bow Bloodspeaker Sanctum to allow one of your Personalities to cast the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. Permanently give thet Personality the Bloodspeaker trait.
  Playing With Madness 0g, 1f Kiho Maho Limited: Bow one of your Shugenja. That shugenja permanently gains +2F/+2C and the Shadowlands and Bloodspeaker Traits, and permanently loses all current Innate Abilities. Any Spell or Kiho cast by the Shugenja for the rest of this game gans the Maho trait. Lose 2 Honor.
  A: Wow, there's never a dull moment around here, is there?
  Yup, he's casting the Kiho as if he were a Shugenja. That makes all his abilities "Current Innate Abilities" while casting the Kiho. That means Playing with Madness will erase them permanently. Pretty vile stuff. I imagine that you could use this with Show of Good Faith to make some sort of evil juju. Martin Lund, "Rules for 4 April 2004", 6 Apr 2004
• Q: Doesn't matter. Chiang-Tsu was the only card supposed to be in those packs. He's the only one formally released.
  Does this mean that the three ronin are going to be released another time?
  A: Yes. Jeff Alexander, "replies to 21 September 2001", 24 Sep 2001
• Q: I was under the impression that all of the Ronin, not just Chiang-Tsu, were released as part of the Welcome Home packages sent to people.
  A: They were. But *before this systematic release*, they were given out on a *very* limited basis. As other have noted, the current "Welcome Home" is not more than 30 days before GenCon. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 31 July 2001", 1 Aug 2001
• Q: Chiang-Tsu and the rest of the Ronin promos were distributed before Gold's release date. If they are not legal, why are the other Gold promos legal?
  A: Probably because those particular cards were no distributed systematically. Those promo cards were only distributed in *very* limited supply to people whose koku orders could not be filled. It's not like they went out with a mailing, or in a magazine, or anything else. They were given out as gifts to a few people. Zen Faulkes, "Rules for 30 July 2001, Part 2", 31 Jul 2001
• Q: How does Chiang-Tsu intereact with the Temples of the Crow?
  A: Very badly? Sensei is a reserved game term, and a personality with the Sensei trait doesn't count as a Sensei card type. Something would specifically have to refer to 'personalities with the Sensei trait' to get past the general rule about reserved game terms. Vaughn Derderian, "Rules for July 30th", 30 Jul 2001