Dark Ring of Air

Legend of the Five Rings card from Rise of Otosan Uchi

Card Type

Ring

Keywords

Experienced, Unique, Air, Shadowlands

Card Text

You may not include this Ring with Ring of Air in your deck. This Ring does not count towards an Enlightenment Victory.
Open: If each player controls three or more bowed Personalities, put this Ring into play and lose 3 Honor.
Open, w: If it is your turn, bow a target Personality. They will not straighten until after their controllers' next Action Phase begins.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Shattered Empire, War of the Seals (Onyx Edition)

Erratum

Functional errata to remove the ability to discard the Ring for its printed action: 30 Jun 2026

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Functional errata to remove the ability to discard the Ring for its printed action. The Onyx Lives Project, 30 Jun 2026

Rules Q&A

• Q: In ShE rules, if two traits, one from each player, have the same trigger, which trigger happens first? Dark Ring of Air - Tao of Kokujin vs. The False Shikei... also because Ishiken wants to gloat... Togashi's Daishyo is also in play.
  A: Active player decides. Brook Cunningham, "Onyx Lives #rules-questions", 14 Feb 2026
• Q: So does this additional action come from the stronghold or from the ring? It is printed on the stronghold, but it says "from your target ring" so does the ring need to be repeatable for this to work or can it work with the Dark Ring of Air for example?
  A: The first action is from the Stronghold, then the additional action is directly after the Stronghold action and from the Ring. "Additional" actions are ones you take immediately after another action to keep tempo/not give your opponent a chance to act in between; that term has nothing to do with taking the same action twice.
  (Replying to a player: "Actually, now I am confused again. Actions on bowed cards cannot be used unless they are tireless. So if the ring is bowed, it can't be used again right? Something else would need to unbow the ring in between its first use and the second use.") Again, for an in-play Ring (setting aside the utility of using and reshuffling one from the discard), the Stronghold action has nothing (directly) to do with using the Ring a second time in the same turn. It's about using the Stronghold in tandem with your first use of its action, thus keeping it unbowed so it can be used again if its action does have Repeatable or so that it will still be straight on your opponent's turn for potential use (assuming you used it first during your own turn). Brook Cunningham, "Onyx Lives #rules-questions", 14 Feb 2025
• Q: Hi, after dark ring of air bows my Higaru, my False Shikei straightens. My opponent says he can use his Tao of Kokujin as a response to discarding dark ring to bow Shikei after he straightens. It seems very clear to me that the response has to occur before the discard step (and Shikei straightens at the discard step) so my opponent cannot respond to bow False Shikei after he straightens from discard of dark ring. Please let me know if I am correct?
  A: Dark Ring of Air isn't discarded at the discard step; it discards itself earlier as part of its own effects.
  The discard step F is mainly/exclusively a cleanup step for resolved Strategies. Brook Cunningham, "Onyx Lives #rules-questions", 4 Nov 2024