Togashi's Daisho

Legend of the Five Rings card from Gates of Tengoku

Card Type

Item

Force

+2

Chi

+2

Gold Cost

8

Keywords

Sword, Two-Handed, Experienced, Unique, Weapon, Void

Card Text

Equips to a Dragon Clan Samurai for less. This Item counts as a Ring for actions.
After another player discards a Ring for its own trait or action, once per turn, if they control no Rings, negate its action's effects.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Shattered Empire

Deck

Fate

Story

Spring Kotei 2015 - Filip Burakowski

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: And another question along similar lines to my other question just posted in the Onyx Rules channel: If I use Walk With the Elements to bring Togashi's Daisho into play, can I bring it into play without gold cost and can I attach it to my personality? The comprehensive rules say that "Attachments may only enter play by being attached to a Personality", so even if the equip action is not being used and gold cost is not being paid it appears from the comprehensive rules that I can put it on someone for free?
  A: No. The CR says, "Attachments may only enter play by being attached to a Personality, [and] are discarded if in play and not attached to a Personality" so trying to bring the Daisho in by those means would just have it discarded.
  (Replying to a player: "Thanks, my understanding of that clause is that if the personality they are attached somehow leaves play, the attachment gets discarded. Eg: Someone uses Bad Death of Hida Daizu on my personality. However the Rules statement above seems to be talking about entering play. You are suggesting the …") I suppose I didn't really think about the first part of my quote preventing the second part. There's not really much cause for the second part to even exist if it does (there are other Rules that if a Personality leaves play, their attached cards leave play the same way, so Bad Death would banish all attachments, not discard them). Either way, the Daisho's not getting into play attached using a "put a Ring into play" action. 😛
  (Replying to a player: "I've just been thinking about banishing attachments and I wonder if there is a problem with Togashi's Daisho since it counts as a Ring for actions and actions cannot banish Rings unless they specifically say they can... so would this mean the Bad Death of Hida Daizu cannot target a personality with …") Well, just having an unbanishable attachment shouldn't protect the whole unit; I suppose there we might have a situation where we have to invoke the "attachment is in play without a Personality" discard clause. But that said, the anti-Ring-banishment thing is a fairly new Rule, probably not intended to work with not-actually-Rings; I'll forward that along to Design also. 🙂
  (Replying to a player: "Thanks, I guess this is an important issue because other cards for example VTD could maybe also fail to banish Togashi's Daisho if it is in my discard pile. I guess Way of the Dragon is also unbanishable by my opponent from VTD.") Yeah, it could very likely be concluded that while not intended, interactions like being immune to VtD are not so deformative that the Rule needs any altering from its current state. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 22 Apr 2025