Akodo Hiroshi

Legend of the Five Rings card from Glory of the Empire

Card Type

Personality

Force

2

Chi

3

Honor Requirement

7

Gold Cost

6

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Lion

Keywords

Tactician, Gunso, Lion Clan, Samurai

Card Text

Battle, : Equip your target discarded Follower to your target Personality.

Legality

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

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: In reference to: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=79866#p1045640
  Let's say I ranged attack a Light Infantry, destroying it.
  My opponent has Yoritomo Naizen (xp 3), who has this ability: Battle: Target a Follower in your hand or discard pile. Attach it to your target Personality, paying 3 less Gold. You may take an additional Battle action.
  Can they Naizen the Light Infantry back?
  Would it be different if they were using Akodo Hiroshi? Battle: Attach your target discarded Follower to a target Personality in Hiroshi's army.
  A: Yes, both Naizen and Hiroshi's abilities could retrieve the Light Infantry in your example.
  As was said in your link, only Personalities in the discard pile are distinguished between "destroyed" or "discarded". For any other card type, whether it ended up in the discard by being destroyed or not isn't tracked.
  I understand your wanting clarification, as Naizen and Hiroshi are worded slightly differently ("in the discard pile" verus "discarded"), but since they are referencing a non-Personality card type, they are essentially saying the same thing. Brook Cunningham, "Do "dead" followers go in the discard pile sideways?", 11 Nov 2009
• Q: The rulebook says that when a personality leaves play, all attachments leave play in the same manner. Since that means a follower was destroyed, do I put the follower sideways in my discard pile? Also, to use an ability such as "Battle: Attach your target discarded Follower from your discard pile to your target personality", would that mean that the follower would have had to be discarded from my hand earlier and I should keep track of which followers were actually discarded?
  I'm asking about Akodo Hiroshi, in a roundabout way.
  A: There is no distinction between "destroyed" and "discarded" cards in the Fate Discard Pile, however some cards may make that distinction when reacting to an attachment's destruction.
  Akodo Hiroshi will be able to equip discarded followers with his abillity. Dan Jacobson, "Do "dead" followers go in the discard pile sideways?", 30 Oct 2009
• Q: (A)are all followers in your discard pile considered to have been discarded even those that were killed through battle resolution or some other card effect? Or am I supposed to keep track of which followers have actually been discarded (ie Focused, discarded from my hand or from play etc.) and those are the only ones targetable by his action?
  A: The former.
  http://rules.l5r.com/Physically_marked_ ... ut_of_play: "No distinction between destroyed and discarded non-Personality cards is made while they are in the discard pile; all such cards have the state 'discarded.'" Zen Faulkes, "Akodo Hiroshi", 6 Apr 2009