Gumbai-Uchiwa

Legend of the Five Rings card from Celestial Edition, Battle of Kyuden Tonbo, The Truest Test, Ivory Edition, Samurai Edition Banzai, Promotional–Ivory

Card Type

Item

Force

+2

Chi

+0

Gold Cost

3

Keywords

Weapon, One-Handed, Tessen

Card Text

After this Item leaves play, remove it from the game.
You may Equip this Item from your discard pile as a Battle action.

Focus Value

3

Legality

A Brother's Destiny (Ivory Edition), A Brother's Destiny (Twenty Festivals), Age of Enlightenment (Lotus), Destroyer War (Celestial), Race for the Throne (Samurai)

MRP

Battle action is now a trait that allows it to Equip as a Battle action.

Deck

Fate

Printings

Rulings

• Erratum: Reads, "Gumbai-Uchiwa +2F/+0C 3G 3FV Tessen • Weapon After this card leaves play: Remove it from the game. Battle: If this card is in your discard pile: Attach it to your target Personality." [MRP, Celestial Edition, 29 June 2009] Comprehensive Rules, Celestial Edition, with specific card rulings, final version, February 2012, p. 134

Rules Q&A

• Q: In a recent game with a friend, a point of contention arose regarding the effects of Shameful Injury. During my Action phase, I'd attached a weapon (a Gumbai-Uchiwa) to my personality (Matsu Benika Exp 2), then declared an attack. In the battle, my opponent played Shameful Injury on Benika. He claimed that Shameful Injury would negate the Force bonus to Benika from the item because it had been attached that turn. I contended that the Force bonus was not due to an action (i.e., Limited, Open, Battle, or Reaction), but an item, and thus would not be affected by Shameful Injury.
  Gumbai Uchiwa Tessen * Weapon 3G +2F +0C After this card leaves play: Remove it from the game. Battle: If this card is in your discard pile: Attach it to your target Personality.
  Shameful Injury Strategy 0G Battle: Even if you control no units at the current battlefield: Negate all current Force bonuses and penalties a target Personality has received from actions. Until the turn ends, negate all new Force bonuses or penalties to him from actions.
  A: Bonuses from items are not from actions, and not affected by Shameful Injury.
  http://rules.l5r.com/CE_Effects#Source_of_effects: "Targeting, costs, effects and actions come 'from,' or are done by, the card where the thing in question is originally physically printed." Zen Faulkes, "Shameful Injury and Gumbai-Uchiwa", 4 Dec 2009
• Q: Can an effect "Straighten your target card" target at a card which is not bowed?
  Similarly, can an effect (not a cost) "Bow a target card" target a card which is bowed?
  Specifically, if I have no bowed cards in my army can I still use Matsu Satsune to bow an enemy follower or personality without attachments? (Or perhaps I have e.g. a Gumbai-Uchiwa in my hand that I want to discard so I can attach it)
  Matsu Satsune Battle: Discard a card: Straighten a target unit in Satsune's army. If you discarded a Bushido Virtue, you may target and bow an enemy Follower or Personality without attachments.
  Edit: Thanks for the link. This ruling went against me in our CE release, so it's good to know where in the rules I can point to next time.
  A: Can an effect "Straighten your target card" target a card which is not bowed? Yes
  Similarly, can an effect (not a cost) "Bow a target card" target a card which is bowed? Yes
  Specifically, if I have no bowed cards in my army can I still use Matsu Satsune to bow an enemy follower or personality without attachments? Yes Alex Jones, "Bow a bowed card? Straighten an unbowed card?", 7 Jul 2009