Doji Ayano

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Samurai Edition, Glory of the Empire, Promotional–Samurai

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

10

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

4

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Courtier, Crane Clan, Samurai

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Doji Ayano 2F/4C 10HR 6G 4PH Crane Clan • Courtier • Samurai" [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 129
• Erratum: Reads, “Doji Ayano 2F/4C 10HR 6G 4PH Crane Clan • Samurai • Courtier” [MRP, Samurai Edition, 25 July 2007] Comprehensive Rules, Samurai Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, May 2009, p. 132

Rules Q&A

• Q: I am targeted by Kakita Okirou and my opponent discards a card with 4 FV. I go to my Dynasty Phase to buy full a Doji Ayano (4PH). I gain the 4 honor but with Okirou's effect, the honor gain is reduced to 0. Can I buy another Personality at full to gain honor for that turn?
  A: Yes. Actual honor gain is what matters, not the decision.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Sequence_of_play#Dynasty_Phase Zen Faulkes, "Kakita Okirou vs. Dynasty Phase", 3 Aug 2009
• Q: I was wondering, if I have Doji Ayano in play, can I bring Doji Ayano experienced into play without overlaying the Doji Ayano that I have in play.
  Here is a somewhat related question. If I am overlaying a personality, is there any way that I can gain honor from the personality entering play by paying 2 extra gold like I normally would once per turn for bringing an in-clan personality into play?
  A: You'll note that Doji Ayano (basic) does not have the Unique keyword. You may have up to 3 copies of her, and 1 copy of her Experienced version, in your deck (and in play!) at the same time.
  You may not gain honor for overlaying Ayano Experienced onto her basic version. Dan Jacobson, "Can I have Doji Ayano & Ayano XP in play at the same time?", 11 Jul 2009
• Q: Stronger than Steel previews and rulesheet have shown Doji Masako as a courtier who could allow its controler to use twice in a turn, any of the two "default player abilites that involve discarding the Imperial Favor". Indeed part of Doji Masako's text reads: "if the discarding paid a cost from one of your abilities not on a card, you can use that ability an additional time this turn" (emphasis mine).
  In this context, Glossary "From" explains that a cost is 'from an ability not on a card' if this ability is printed in the rulebook. The two default player abilites I am talking about are actually printed in the rulebook, that is fine.
  However, I've also read the "Your" entry in the Glossary but I've found nothing that could suggest these default abilites might be "one of your abilities" from Doji Masako's point of view or his controler's. To be precise, according to me the only sentence from the "Your" entry in the Glossary that may be useful here reads: "When “your” and similar words refer to an effect, action, or targeting, they refer to effects, actions and targeting from that player’s cards" (emphasis added). Unless I make a mistake, it means such abilities must always come from a card whereas Doji Masako only looks for abilities that don't come from a card. That seems to make no sense !
  Let me ask it directly: if I control one unbowed Doji Masako, one unbowed Doji Ayano with 4 Personal Honor and the Imperial Favor during my Action Phase, and if I use the ability that makes me discard the Favor along with one card in order to draw another card, and if I use Doji Masako's reaction at the time when I discard the Imperial Favor with the purpose of gaining control of it again, can I also use this same drawing ability an additional time this turn thanks to Masako's reaction's effects ? If yes, according to the rules and apart from designer's intent, why is this player ability considered to be "from one of [Doji Masako's controler's] abilities" please ?
  Thanks once more for your wonderful help.
  A: That's a CR problem, the "Your" entry is now expanded to make sense. Roger Giner-Sorolla, "Doji Masako: half useful, half useless ?", 11 Oct 2007
• Q: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=59728
  With this ruling, are you stating the Obsidian Dragon's trait can be added to by other effects to reduce personalities' chi to 0?
  Example:
  If the Obsidian Dragon were facing Doji Ayano, she would have 1C (4-4 min 1). Could I then reduce her chi by 1 via a number of methods (Adieko, Kyuden Warasuremono) to destroy her?
  A: [quote="Mirumoto_Ryudo](Can) the Obsidian Dragon's trait can be added to by other effects to reduce personalities' chi to 0?[/quote] Yes. Zen Faulkes, "Obsidian Dragon", 29 Jul 2007