Dragon of Fire

Legend of the Five Rings card from Soul of the Empire

Card Type

Personality

Force

6

Chi

4

Honor Requirement

10

Gold Cost

10

Personal Honor

4

Clan

Unaligned

Keywords

Cavalry, Experienced Fire Dragon, Unique, Dragon, Fire, Nonhuman, Shugenja

Card Text

Will not enter play unless you control the Ring of Fire.
Will not attach Followers or Items.
Battle: Any number of times per turn, discard a card: Ranged Attack with strength equal to the discarded card's Focus Value.

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Dynasty

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: 5. If a card gives a bonus like 'This card gaines +X force where X is equal to this cards RA strength'. Would a card with a variable strength (but known) RA get the bonus (ie Fires from Within)? What bonus would the Dragon of Fire get?
  A: The Glossary on page 105 of the Rulebook does a good job with "Variable." If you can calculate it on the
  button without making any choices, it isn't "variable" as far as the game is concerned.
  Hypothetical cards make rulings more difficult. Could you give me a specific card? Ambush Strategist
  immediately comes to mind, but I can't find any others. Ambush Strategist specifies the "highest" strength
  ranged attack, and only gives the bonuses directly to the card with the RA. That means Fires from Within gets
  a useless +X bonus, not the shugenja.
  Fire Dragon would get a +10 bonus from Ambush Strategist, the highest value amoung his non-variable Ranged
  Attacks (of which he has two, with two separate abilities). Martin Lund, "Rules for 13 May 2004", 16 May 2004
• Q: Well, Dragon of Fire was updated to read as Fire Dragon, and I have a Dragon of Fire, so... Also,
  A: Oh, right. I forgot the name change. Was just looking at the MRPs, and the Exp 1 is the only one under the old name.
  Yeah, I don't see why it would be an exception. Brook Cunningham, "Oracle of the Void #rules", 3 Mar 2023