Poisoned Weapon
Legend of the Five Rings card from Chaos Reigns Part III
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Strategy
- Gold Cost
- 0
- Keywords
- Ninja, Experienced
- Card Text
- As a Focus Effect, give the Personality facing yours in the duel two -1F/-1C Poison tokens and lose 3 Honor.
Battle: Bow your target Ninja to give a target enemy Personality two -1F/-1C Poison tokens and lose 3 Honor. - Focus Value
- 1
- Legality
- Shattered Empire
- Deck
- Fate
Printings
Chaos Reigns Part III
- Rarity
- Fixed
- Flavor Text
- A simple scratch. The rest is silence.
- Artist
- (PD) Stock Art
- Card Number
- 117
- Publisher
- Onyx Lives
- Publisherurl
- https://sites.google.com/view/the-onyx-lives-project/home
Rules Q&A
- Q: [Imperial]
Does Poisoned Weapon target the opponent, thus cancelable by Norikazu's ability?
My personal take is yes-- while the word 'target' isn't there, it clearly points to who gets the Chi penalty.
Like Kachiko's ability: Bow to put a -1C seduction token on any Personality. Or Aramoro's ability to bow to force the discard of a dynasty card from any one Province in play. Doesn't say 'target' but clearly has one, in Poisoned Weapon's case; the opponent in the duel.
Sorry for saying my take, I would like to exercise my rules understanding.
A: It actually doesn't target, because there is no choice in who/what it affects. Implicit targeting is defined by there being the need to choose what the effect affects. Brook Cunningham, "Sun and Moon #rules-questions", 3 Jun 2026