Face of the Nameless

Legend of the Five Rings card from Honor Bound

Card Type

Strategy

Gold Cost

0

Keywords

Ninja

Card Text

Limited: Bow one or more of your performing Ninja Personalities and target a Human Personality: If his Chi is less than the number of Ninja performing this action and his Personal Honor is less than each of those Ninja's Chi, take control of him, destroy all his Followers, and permanently give him Ninja.

Focus Value

4

Legality

Hidden Emperor (Jade)

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rules Q&A

• Q: Goju Adorai If Adorai's Controller uses Ambush, Iaujutsu Challenge, Hidden Blade or Something similar, is he considered to have targeted the player or his cards in that turn? What about cards Like Face of the Nameless?
  A: Good question. Since Adorai has no abilities in and of himself, I don't see how his card in particular can target anything in 99.5% of all games. I'm going to make a Designer's Intent ruling here: it applies to any actions he performs. That covers Hidden Blade and Face of the Nameless.
  By that definition, Ambush and Iaijutsu Challenge still won't count, since Adorai doesn't bow in order to play them, but that's because "perform" has got to be the single most poorly-defined term in the entire game and there is NO way to codify it that makes sense across even close to all of the existing card base. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 18 March 2001", 24 Mar 2001
• Q: Face of the Nameless Can this card capture a Personality that will only join X clan, where X is not your Clan? Can it capture a Personality that Will not join your clan? Is Taking control of a Personality the same as Joining your Clan?
  A: No, no, and it's one example of it. Jeff Alexander, "Rulings for 18 March 2001", 24 Mar 2001