Doji Reju

Legend of the Five Rings card from Enemy of My Enemy

Card Type

Personality

Force

4

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

0

Gold Cost

11

Personal Honor

3

Clan

Crane

Keywords

Duelist, Experienced 3, Unique, Crane Clan, Guardian of the Empress, Samurai

Card Text

Challenges issued by Reju will not be refused.
If scores are tied in a duel involving Reju, he wins the duel.
Battle: Once per battle, Reju challenges a target enemy Personality. If Reju wins, you may target any number of Unique Personalities at Reju's battlefield and move them home. Destroy the loser.

Legality

Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Rain of Blood (Diamond)

Erratum

Errata'd via the internet to clarify that Reju is not an "Empress" card.

Deck

Dynasty

Story

2004 The Resurrection Top of Clan - Heraclio Sanchez / 2004 The Empress' Guard - Mark Wootton

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Say I challenge a 3 chi personality with Doji Reju. My opponent focuses Kharmic Strike, and I proceed to strike.
  According to the rules for resolving a duel in the comprehensive rules, focus effects resolve in step 4. So it is at that point that Kharmic Strike resolves, setting up the delayed effect of both personalities losing the duel when it resolves. However, in step 5, the scores are added up, and are tied, so Reju's trait triggers then, saying that he wins the duel. Which take precedence? I can see a few potential outcomes:
  1.) Active player decides whether to apply Kharmic Strike's effect before Reju's, and so he will either win or lose the duel based upon that order. 2.) It doesn't matter the order they are applied, as they are not contradictory effects, the other personality will lose and Reju will both win AND lose the duel. 3.) Reju's trait doesn't matter as Kharmic Strike says the duel is not a tie (doubtful, as that is reminder text and seems to refer to the outcome NOT to the adding of scores which Reju is concerned with).
  Thanks
  A: Outcome 3 is the correct answer.
  Focus Effects are applied before Duel Resolution, so when the duel goes to resolution, Kharmic Strike's effect has modified any result to a double loss, which is as the reminder text states, not a tie. Ben Higgins, "Doji Reju vs. MRPed Kharmic Strike", 17 Apr 2014