Daidoji Kikaze

Legend of the Five Rings card from Hidden City

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

2

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Unique, Crane Clan, Daimyo, Harrier, Magistrate, Samurai

Card Text

Reaction: Once per battle, before you announce a Battle action, if you are the Defender and Kikaze is at any battlefield: You may take the action even if you control no units at the current battlefield.

Legality

Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Daidoji Kikaze defends province #2, An attacking Army is attacking province #3. There are no defending personalities at Province #3 and no attacking personalities at #2.
  Resolving battle at #3.
  May the Crane player with Kikaze at province 2 use Kikaze's trait to allow Kikaze to play steel on steel (or To Do, etc...) targetting a unit in the army attacking #3?
  A: No. Kikaze isn't at that battle. His trait in no way puts him there. All it does is let you wave the rule of Presence and anything similarly worded. Martin Lund, "Rules for 29 May 2004", 2 Jun 2004
• Q: Can you confirm that Kikaze's ability does not allow for Ranged Attacks?
  A: Unless you've invented some form of ranged attack that does not have need to target "opposing" cards of some sort, Kikaze isn't going to help with Ranged Attacks. He lets you take an Action waving the Rule of Presence. That doesn't change any of the other rules in the game, including those governing legal targets. He isn't worded like Chieh xp. He isn't suddenly AT the battle. Martin Lund, "Rules for 22 April 2004", 25 Apr 2004