Companion Spirit

Legend of the Five Rings card from Samurai Edition, Wrath of the Emperor, Lotus Edition, Training Grounds 2, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Spell

Gold Cost

4

Card Text

Limited: If this Shugenja is Human, bow him and destroy this card: Create a Samurai • Cavalry • Spirit Personality, ignoring Gold cost, whose base Force, Chi, Gold Cost, and Personal Honor are those of this Shugenja.

Focus Value

1

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Companion Spirit 4G 1FV Limited: If this Shugenja is Human, bow him and destroy this card: Create a Cavalry, Samurai, Spirit Personality whose base Force, Chi, Gold Cost, and Personal Honor are those of this Shugenja, waiving the Samurai’s Gold cost. [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 128
• Base stats of the Shugenja are used. [ZF, 6 September 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 128

Rules Q&A

• Q: Is the personality created by Companion Spirit perminent, or is it destroyed at the end of the turn? I ask because Ratling Raider says to perminently create the personalities whereas Companion Spirit does not.
  A: Created cards remains in play indefinitely - just like any other card you bring into play - unless otherwise noted or acted upon (destroyed, etc.) Martin Lund, "Rules for 27 September", 29 Sep 2004
• Q: Is the Companion Spirit Cavalry unit created by the casting of this spell permanent?
  A: Yes. Creating something is permanent. That's why effects that temporarily create something tell you to remove it from the game after a certain point in time. Martin Lund, "Rules for 27 August 2004", 31 Aug 2004
• Q: Companion Spirit: when it says that the "base Force, Chi, Gold Cost, and Personal Honor of the Samurai are those of this Shugenja", does the "base" part refer to both the status of Samurai and the Shugenja, or just to the stats of the Samurai(?)
  A: Tentatively, "those" indicates the whole set of stats, and the modifier, so "base" applies in both cases. Zen Faulkes, "Companion Spirit, part 2", 6 Sep 2007
• Q: When a shugenja casts Companion Spirit, does the created Samurai personality have stats equal to the shugenja's base stats or current stats?
  A: http://rules.l5r.com/Card_features#Gene ... bout_stats: "A stat's current value is always checked, unless text refers to a base value." Zen Faulkes, "Companion Spirit", 6 Sep 2007
• Q: (Does) Wrath of the People works on things like Master Saleh's Ghuls, Essence of Gaki-do, and Companion Spirit?
  A: "Work" is pretty vague. If you're referring to the force bonus, created cards could receive it. Zen Faulkes, "Wrath of the People", 4 Aug 2007