Chitik

Legend of the Five Rings card from Path of Hope

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

2

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

5

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Ratling

Keywords

Nonhuman, Ratling, Shugenja, Third Whisker Tribe

Card Text

Your effects will not create Personalities.
You may play Strategies in any player's discard pile. Their actions have the additional cost, "bow and dishonor Chitik," and cards played this way are removed from the game instead of being discarded when they would be discarded.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus)

Erratum

Errata'd via the internet.

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Chitik 3F/2C -HR 5G 1PH Ratling Shugenja. Third Whisker Tribe. Creature You may not create Personalities. You may play Action cards in any discard piles with an additional cost of bowing and Dishonoring Chitik. Remove cards played this way from the game instead of discarding them." [Erratum, web, 30 August 2006] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 94
• Actions played during battle do not automatically meet the requirement for relevance if Chitik is in the battle and he is used to pay the cost. [ML, web, 14 February 2006] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 94

Rules Q&A

• Q: If i have an Honored hostage in my discard pile, and i play it (on one of my personality) because of Chitik, do i gain honor of my honored hostage normally or do i rehonor Chitik instead ?
  A: Let's see what happens when I search for "chitik rehonor"... and I get an answer here.
  And the moral of the story is: Please search before posting. Zen Faulkes, "Honored hostage and chitik", 30 Oct 2006
• Q: Chitik: Just to be explicitly correct here, an immideate terrain would resolve and then be removed from the game, but a delayed terrain would stay in play until the end of the battle and then be removed after it resolved. Is that correct?
  A: No. Terrains stay in play until the Resolution Segment. Zen Faulkes, "Yet another Chitik question", 8 May 2006
• Q: You can't play formations off chitik because he doesn't allow you to use the rule book action to put them into play. Could you use the Castle of the Swift Sword trait to just play it as an action?
  A: With Chitik, yes. Zen Faulkes, "Yet another Chitik question", 8 May 2006
• Q: Can you play Geisha Assassin while you have a Chitik in play?
  A: You can play it (i.e., legal to announce, pick targets, pay costs), but it won't do much, because the Personality creation is negated. Zen Faulkes, "Chitik + Geisha Assassin", 8 May 2006
• Q: does chitiks downside (you may not create personalities) mean you can't create them via cards like the ratling stronghold or no victory or does it mean you can't bring any personalities in play, like from your provinces?
  A: The former. Zen Faulkes, "Chitik question", 7 May 2006