Doji Hoturi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Obsidian Edition, Imperial Edition, Emerald Edition

Card Type

Personality

Force

3

Chi

5

Honor Requirement

15

Gold Cost

12

Personal Honor

5

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Loyal, Unique, Clan Champion, Crane Clan, Samurai

Card Text

Reaction: Once per duel, after Hoturi enters a duel: Both Personalities use their Personal Honor as their duel stat. Negate the duel's effects for winning and losing. The loser's controller loses 3 Honor and chooses whether the loser commits seppuku or is dishonored.

Legality

Clan Wars (Imperial)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Doji Hoturi 3F/5C 15HR 12G 5PH Crane Clan Champion. Samurai. Unique. Will only join a Crane Clan Player. Reaction: Change a duel Hoturi is entering to a Duel of Personal Honor. Winner merely survives, loser loses 3 Honor and must either commit seppuku (even if not a samurai) or be dishonored. These results replace the original results." [MRP, Obsidian Edition] Rules Archive, August 18, 2007, p. 96
• May make any duel a Duel of Honor, even one which is not a Duel of Chi to begin with. [DW, l5rinfo, 11/19/96] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 23
• When making a duel a Duel of Honor, the original duel results are replaced by the ones on his card. [DW, l5rinfo, 12/19/96] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 23
• The option to commit seppuku upon losing to avoid being dishonored is available to all Personalities, not just samurai. [RD, l5rinfo, 3/14/97] Accumulated Rulings, February 8, 2000, p. 23
• Clarified: focussing adds to Personal Honor if he makes a duel a Duel of Honor. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 14
• Clarified: if his Reaction is used, losing Personality may commit seppuku even if not a Samurai. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 14
• Clarified: if his Reaction is used, its results replace the duel's original results. Text Change & Errata List, February 15, 2000, p. 14
• Q: What's the deal with Doji Hoturi? How can he ever lose a duel? No one else has a personal honor as high as his, and focusing is useless because it adds to your Chi! A: If Hoturi's controller makes a duel a duel of honor, focus cards will add their values to personal honor, not Chi, since that's what the duel is based on. Note that this only applies to Fate cards played as focus cards, not to any other duel-related, Chi-changing effects. Also note that the Double Chi ability, because of how it's defined, will work normally in a duel of honor. The Imperial Herald, Vol. 1, Issue 3, p. 7

Rules Q&A

• Q: I was looking at the rulings for Memorial that just came up, and then my eye glanced over to my copy of Doji Hoturi (nonexperienced) who can turn duels into duels of personal honor. And then I hatched an evil plot. Or tried to at least.
  My scenario is this:
  If I'm in a duel with Hoturi (Doesn't really matter if I'm playing Hoturi or if I'm the poor fool dueling Hoturi), and focus a lot of cards, then the focus values of those cards get added to his personal honor, not his chi, right?
  A: Right. Jeff Alexander, "post for 30 July 2002", 31 Jul 2002