Daigotsu Hidetsugu
Legend of the Five Rings card from The Truest Test
Open in Oracle of the Void
- Card Type
- Personality
- Force
- 4
- Chi
- 3
- Honor Requirement
- -
- Gold Cost
- 8
- Personal Honor
- 1
- Clan
- Spider
- Keywords
- Magistrate, Samurai, Shadowlands, Spider Clan
- Card Text
- After Hidetsugu enters play, lose 3 Honor.
Battle: Bow or straighten a target Shadowlands Personality. - Legality
- Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Race for the Throne (Samurai)
- Deck
- Dynasty
Printings
The Truest Test
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Flavor Text
- "Not all among the Lost believe that our lord's new path is true. It falls to me to silence the heretics that walk among us."
- Artist
- Aaron Acevedo
- Card Number
- 61
- Publisher
- Alderac Entertainment Group
Rules Q&A
- Q: Do Daigotsu XP2 and Daigotsu Hidetsugu have to be at the battle to use their ability?
A: http://rules.l5r.com/Battles#Combat_Segment: "If a Battle action is on a card in a unit (a Personality or attachment in play), the unit must be at the current battlefield." Yes.
(Fixed.) Zen Faulkes, "Straighten and rule of location", 7 Oct 2007 - Q: So according to this: viewtopic.php?t=57513
Chuda Eiichi could, whilst at home, target and bow a card not at the current battlefield, since he ignores relevance. So he could even target someone at home?
And Daigotsu Hidetsugu could, from home or any other battle, target a card in the current battle and bow or straighten it if it were Shadowlands?
Relevant Text:
A: Actually, to be real precise, these cards ignore the Rule of Location. Which doesn't exist yet.
So really, don't fret about these until Samurai Edition releases. Zen Faulkes, "Chuda Eiichi and Daigotsu Hidetsugu follow-up", 28 May 2007 - Q: The wording on these two cards has me a bit puzzled, for reference, here they are:
and
Now the wording on Chuda Eiichi seems to say that he works differently than normal for relevance/presence, implying that either
1) The rules for Presence and Relevance are changing in Samurai
2) He can target units at battlfields other than the current battlefield
3) He can target the current battlefield even if you have no presence already there
4) It's just awkward wording
Otherwise he has a chunk of text that is simply unnecessary, since, as I understand it, the current Relevance and Presence rules would allow Hidetsugu to target and bow/straighten cards in the current battle from home or another battlefield as long as you have a unit at the current battle. Really, I guess I'm just asking for some clarification if Eiichi has some sort of ability to target outside the bounds of normal presence and relevance, or if I'm getting something backwards in there.
A: Chuda Eiichi's text waives the requirement for Presence. Zen Faulkes, "Daigotsu Hidetsugu and Chuda Eiichi", 27 May 2007