Yoritomo Saika

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gathering Storms

Card Type

Personality

Force

1

Chi

1

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

3

Personal Honor

0

Clan

Mantis

Keywords

Mercenary, Naval, Renew

Card Text

(When a card with Renew enters play from a Province, refill its Province face-up.)
Saika has a Force bonus equal to the highest non-variable Gold Production among your Port Holdings, to a maximum of +3F.

Legality

Shattered Empire

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: For Yoritomo Saika does Dockside Market count as a 4 if I am going 2nd as Mantis clan?
  A: Yes, but of course, her Force bonus will cap out at +3 due to her own trait, so going first or second won't really matter. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 12 Oct 2024
• Q: Specifically I was looking at Yoritomo Saika but I was trying to ask in such a way to give me a better understanding of what Variable meant overall
  A: Aha, gotcha. So, as described above, variable versus non-variable GP isn't something a Holding can have partially or sometimes. Either Saika can't interact with it at all (if Artisan Academy was a Port, hypothetically), or she can. Jade Works's GP (to use BBlade's example) isn't both non-variable (3GP base) and variable (+2GP while paying for a Jade Card); it's always considered non-variable, because its base is not wholly dependendent on another factor, only its bonus.
  So, if Jade Works was a Port (and Saika didn't have a cap to her bonus), she would still only get +3F from it, not 5, because its bonus is only temporary and conditional upon while/during paying for a Jade card. A card with a Wealth token, however, has a continuous bonus to its GP, so if you had a 1GP port with a +1GP Wealth token on it, Saika's bonus would be +2F. Brook Cunningham, "Onyx Lives #rules-questions", 6 Oct 2024