Daigotsu Gyoken

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Words and Deeds

Card Type

Personality

Force

5

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

-

Gold Cost

7

Personal Honor

1

Clan

Spider

Keywords

Unique, Experienced, Samurai, Shadowlands, Spider Clan

Card Text

After Gyoken enters play: Lose 6 Honor.
Battle: Even if Gyoken is bowed, if he was assigned to the current battlefield or if any enemy units are there: He is relentless. Move him there. Straighten his unit if he moved.

Legality

Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Daigotsu Gyoken 5F/3C -HR 7G 1PH Spider Clan • Shadowlands • Samurai • Experienced • Unique After Gyoken enters play: Lose 6 Honor. Battle: Even if Gyoken is bowed, if he assigned to the current battlefield or if any enemy units are there: He is relentless. Move him there. Straighten his unit if he moved." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 127

Rules Q&A

• Q: So, upon reading the rules on exp personalities and overlaying I noticed that is say that one can only overlay during the Dynasty phase. If I use Your Clan Needs you I can't overlay an exp'd card onto another card with the same title? (for example Daigotsu Gyoken and Daigotsu Gyoken exp 3)
  A: That is correct. Your Clan Needs You CANNOT overlay a Personality in your province onto one in play.
  Overlaying outside the Dynasty Phase can only be done through a specific effect that allows it, such as Waystation of the Path or Oyo's Second Lesson. Brook Cunningham, "Overlay and Your Clan Needs you", 20 Apr 2012
• Q: If Daigotsu Gyoken Exp. goes through battle resolution, can he still use his Battle ability?
  Battle: Even if Gyoken is bowed, if he assigned to the current battlefield or if any enemy units are there: He is relentless. Move him there. Straighten his unit if he moved.
  I am assuming the answer is no, due to the Second-Battle rule:
  Before a unit that was in an attacking army at any point during a battle’s resolution moves to a battlefield during the same Attack Phase, the unit’s movement does not happen.
  Unlike the Rules of Presence and Location, the Second-Battle Rule does not restrict the taking of actions, but prevents movement as a cost or effect under certain conditions.
  Please advise.
  A: Assuming this is still the same phase, he may still use the battle ability, but he will not move to the battlefield because of the rule you quoted. (He will therefore not straighten) Dan Jacobson, "Daigotsu Gyoken Exp. and Battle Resolution", 1 Nov 2009